Category: Human Origins and Anthropology
Challenged on the “1 Percent” Myth, Smithsonian Gives a Meaningless Non-Answer
Note to President Trump: I find this pretty disrespectful to the people who pay the bills at the Smithsonian.
Letter to the Smithsonian
Unfortunately, the 1 percent myth is promulgated as fact at, among other places, the nation’s own Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different
This number is only looking at the non-sex chromosomes. When you look at the sex chromosomes, the differences seem to be even greater.
Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth
Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent.
Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth
The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.”