Tag: 1 percent myth
Reporting on the widespread myth of roughly 99% human and chimp genome similarity.
Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent Functional DNA
I contacted the corresponding authors of the original study and they kindly offered their interpretation of the differences between the human and chimp genomes.
Fact Check: New “Complete” Chimp Genome Shows 14.9 Percent Difference from Human Genome
I suspect that this radical finding has implications — for human exceptionalism and more — that people will be discussing for a long time.
Bombshell: New Research Overturns Claim that Humans and Chimps Differ by Only 1 Percent of DNA
This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery.
Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected
It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!”
Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?
For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true?