RichardKennaway comments on Open thread, Dec. 8 - Dec. 15, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 08 December 2014 01:37:14PM 3 points [-]

This confuses me. I find it highly unlikely the average human shares more genes with a chimpanzee than another human and even more unlikely that siblings only share 50% of their genes.

It puzzles me as well. I believe the answer is that there are multiple concepts of "shared genes", but I have never been clear what they are.