Researchers find bonobos share 99% DNA similarity to humans

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There is absolutely no difference between humans and Bonobos - except Bonobos have higher ethical standards.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The ability to create fertile offspring does not necessarily mean two different plants/animals are of the same species.

    This is a plate with kumquats and grapefruit:

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    They can both be interbred and hybridize.

    Hybridization between different species can oftentimes lead to some interesting reproductive problems further down the line. In the case of crossing a domestic pet cat and an African serval cat, the hybrid male cats are sterile and unable to reproduce, though the females can reproduce.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_cat

    In fact the famed plant breeder Luther Burbank actually made a successful cross between raspberry and strawberry, two fruits that are very different from each other, though the resulting hybrid had very stunted growth and did not produce edible fruits.
    http://the-biologist-is-in.blogspot.com/2015/01/hybrid-sterility-and-speciation.html
     
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    you fail to understand genetics. The difference between humans and the apes that perceive as small is in fact enormous. There some 3 billion bits of data in our approximately 20,000 genes , and the real kicker that you're clearly unaware of, apes have one extra pair of chromosomes 24 to our 23. We are related to apes but vastly different.

    Humans do in fact all share the same DNA, we are all related, we are all one big extended family, all 7.5 billion of us.
     
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    humans and apes cannot have a hybrid, different number of chromosomes.
     
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