Saturday, March 11, 2006

Difference between humans and apes A matter of expression

Difference between humans and apes A matter of expression


A chimpanzee enjoys frozen fruit treats Why are humans and apes so different if their genomes are so similar? Less than four percent of the chimpanzee's genetic code is different from our own, a tally so tiny that some speculate the distinction between primates may lie in just a handful of key genes -- perhaps as few as 50 out of 20,000 or so in the human genome.

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