sep332 comments on You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 07:58AM

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Comment author: sep332 17 February 2010 04:12:32PM 2 points [-]

"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?

Comment author: ciphergoth 17 February 2010 04:27:07PM 2 points [-]

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