Jed Rothwell wrote:
Just like us, almost. See:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68706,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_10
QUOTE:
"[Human and chimp] DNA remains highly similar -- about 96 percent to
almost 99 percent identical, depending on how the comparison is made.
Still, the number of genetic differences between a human and a chimp
is about 10 times more than between any two humans, the federal genome
institute says. It's the differences -- some 40 million -- that
attract the attention of scientists."
The article does not mention this, but since the human genome project
began the technology for decoding DNA has improved tremendously. Speed
has increased and the cost has dropped by orders of magnitude, and the
process is much more automated. This is a tremendous boon to biology.
The genomes for many different species are now being decoded.
Someday, in the distant future, it may be possible to decode every
individual person's entire genome. The results may be fascinating, but
I fear they may lead to all kinds of predictions about their
personality, health, longevity, criminal proclivities and
who-knows-what else.
- Jed
It's only one protein system, cytochrome c protein, they have compared
not the whole genome.
see http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2005/0905chimp.asp
I assume from the second statement you've seen Gattica