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Humans share 98.4% of their DNA with.........??
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Humans share 98.4% of their DNA with the two living species of chimpanzees
But this misses the point: genomes are not cake recipes. A few tiny changes in a handful of genes controlling the development of the cortex could easily have a disproportionate impact. A creature that shares 98.4 per cent of its DNA with humans is not 98.4 per cent human, any more than a fish that shares, say, 40 per cent of its DNA with us is 40 per cent human. Gibbons and monkeys share nearly all their DNA with gorillas. And what of tarsiers and lemurs? Take DNA as your measure of sentience and moral worth and the chemical connectedness of life ensures that you soon end up extending honorary personhood to the rat and haddock."
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
chimpanzees
