Re: Brachiators On Our family Tree? (Common ancestry - direct evidence?)

From: Dick Fischer (dickfischer@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 15:08:00 EST

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    >Walt Hicks wrote:
    >
    >This 99% has always confused me in that is is a number that has been
    >quoted for many years. Yet, it is my understanding that neither the
    >chimpanzee nor human genome have been mapped to anywhere this degree of
    >completeness. So what does this 99% mean? (I'm not arguing; I just don't
    >understand.)

    The two genomes are approximately 99% identical in what has been mapped thus
    far. That is my understanding.

    Another good question for Francis Collins.

    Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
    "The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"

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