Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.cellular-phone-tech Subject: Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:32:02 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:408331 sci.physics:628872 alt.privacy.anon-server:58774 comp.sys.mac.system:104276 alt.comp.os.windows-10:39192 alt.cellular-phone-tech:838 On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:44:16 +0100, Ken Blake wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:31:57 -0500, Mark Lloyd > wrote: > >> On 04/13/2017 01:20 PM, Snit wrote: >> >>> Still have something like 1-4% Neanderthal DNA. You, likely, are part >>> Neanderthal. >> >> One thing I remember is that 1.4% of human DNA is different from >> chimpanzee DNA. > > > I'm not sure, but that might be an old statistic. These days, it's > more like 0.4% for both chimpanzees and bonobos. > > See > http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/06/bonobos-join-chimps-closest-human-relatives > and note the last paragraph which says > > "This item has been updated to reflect that chimps and bonobos are two > species of chimpanzees that are close enough to humans to share 99.6% > of their DNA. The international sequencing effort was led by Max > Planck composed of multiple teams including 454 Life Sciences in > Branford, Connecticut. The researchers also found that the ancestors > of humans split from the ancestor of bonobos and chimps more than 4 > million years ago, not more than 5 million years ago as originally > reported." Irrelevant statistic. You might share lots of DNA with anything that has a heart and liver. Doesn't mean you're anything like the other creature. -- A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item that she doesn't want.