DNA Similarities

• Magazine Department Article

  The Parade of Chimps

  Oct. 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  The chimp and human genome have more differences than previously thought.

• Magazine Department Article

  Group Think

  Oct. 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  All humans today can be traced back to the same small group of people.

• Chimp Filing for Person-hood

  Sept. 29, 2007 from News to Know

  His name notwithstanding, the current legal case for the personhood of Mr. Matthew Hiasl Pan (a chimp) is in jeopardy, reports the Associated Press from Vienna, Austria.

• Not Only How Much, But Also How Fast: Gene Sequences

  Aug. 18, 2007

  The inadequacy of similar “genetic potential” in explaining organisms’ similarity is perhaps most notable in comparisons of chimps and humans.

• Sponge Synapses

  June 9, 2007

  Sponge nerve system genes correlate with human nervous system genes by 25%.

• All About the Differences

  April 21, 2007 from News to Know

  A sensational headline ran across the science media this week: “Chimps More Evolved than Humans.”

• The Trouble with Sequencing

  Nov. 22, 2006

  The news has been buzzing lately about two recent papers that are reporting the sequencing of up to one million bases of the Neanderthal genome.

• Visiting the Family?

  

  Sept. 5, 2006, pp. 54–55

  I have a soft spot for Twycross Zoo. It is a favourite with my children and me, since it is only a 30-minute drive from our house in the west of Leicestershire.

• The Differences Make the Difference

  March 20, 2006

  While there is much similarity in DNA sequences and gene expression among them, there are also important differences. In the case examined, as in other cases, the differences make the difference.

• Evolution: Fact or Fiction?

  Feb. 2, 2006

  In the current controversies about teaching about the origin of life in public schools, there is a general misunderstanding of the differences between “origin science” and “operation science."

• Chimp Genome Sequence Very Different from Man

  Sept. 5, 2005

  Last week, in a special issue of Nature devoted to chimpanzees, researchers report the initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome.

• Technical Research Paper

  Human/Chimp DNA Similarity Continues to Decrease: Counting Indels

  Aug. 1, 2004, pp. 37–40

  It is conventionally held that humans and chimps differ only very slightly in their DNA. However, new evidence suggests that the difference might be much more drastic.

• Apes Are Our Brothers—Just Ask the Post Office

  April 7, 2003

  'Do you realise our DNA is 98.5% identical?’ These are the words in an advertisement for the first-class stamp in a new series called ‘The secret of life,’ released by Royal Mail (UK).

• Research Paper

  Greater Than 98% Chimp/Human DNA Similarity? Not Any More.

  April 1, 2003, pp. 8–10

  A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the common value of >98% similarity of DNA between chimp and humans is incorrect.

• Technical Research Paper

  Are Pseudogenes ‘Shared Mistakes’ Between Primate Genomes?

  Dec. 1, 2000, pp. 55–71

  The claim that pseudogenes and their respective variations are shared between primates in a nested hierarchy, and can only be explained through common evolutionary descent, is found wanting.

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