“Human beings and chimpanzees have 95% shared genetic material. It’s over.”
Where does this number come from? I’ve heard people saying the DNA was 98% the same since well before the human genome was sequenced, and the chimpanzee genome isn’t completely sequenced yet. Where does this number come from?
“Human beings and chimpanzees have 95% shared genetic material. It’s over.” Where does this number come from? I’ve heard people saying the DNA was 98% the same since well before the human genome was sequenced, and the chimpanzee genome isn’t completely sequenced yet. Where does this number come from?
The first google hit for “human chimpanzee DNA” is from Answers in Genesis, but the second might be more useful:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0831_050831_chimp_genes.html