Chimp DNA - No Human Match

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Since mapping of the human genome was announced in the summer of 2000, evolutionists have suggested the DNA of humans and chimps appeared to be 98.5 percent identical. Given current estimates that the human genome contains at least 3-billion base pairs, even a 1.5% DNA difference is significant.

Just this week, a report in the September 30, 2002 edition of The Washington Post challenges that original assumption. This latest news, originating from the prestigious California Institute of Technology, ups the variance to 5%, and concludes “humans and chimps share only about 95 percent of the same DNA.” Excerpts from The Post article follow.

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Wider Human Chimp Gap¹

“Humans and chimpanzees may be slightly less closely related than had been thought, according to new research."

“It has long been believed that the DNA of chimps and humans is about 98.5 percent identical, making chimps our closest relative."

“But Roy J. Britten of the California Institute of Technology conducted a new analysis comparing about 779,000 individual components of DNA from humans and chimps and found more differences than previously noted."

“Britten concludes that humans and chimps share only about 95 percent of the same DNA, according to a report released last week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...”

1. The Washington Post, Monday, September 30, 2002, A7.

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