Monday, February 12, 2007

How do I think chimps and humans diverged as species?

What we discussed in class--that pre-humans and pre-chimps interbred off and on until we couldn't interbred anymore--was quite shocking to me but definitely seems plausible.

But even if our difference in DNA is only 0.06%, this seemingly small amount of difference made the whole world of difference. It's not the numbers that matter, and things like this can't be measured in quantity.

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