Are some humans more like chimps than they are like other humans?

Question

It has long been claimed that humans share 98.5% of their DNA with chimpanzees, though that estimate has more recently been reduced to about 95%.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2833

Yet in a story today, scientists claim that 12% of the human genme can vary from one person to another.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6174510.stm

So if one human is 95% similar to a chimp, yet only 88% similar to another human, are they more ape than man?

And if so, could they be Robbie Williams?

Answer 1

Youve met my brother have you

Answer 2

A very large amount of our DNA (whatever the actual figure) is shared with chimps, but it's the parts of DNA that we share that's important. Nearly all our DNA is called "junk DNA" - it doesn't function at all. Dunno about us differing in human genome by 12% - seems a bit far fetched to me or maybe they were only referring to non junk DNA? Anyway I do know that we share 50% of our DNA with bananas and that doesn't make us a banana!!! It's only a small part of our DNA that makes us who we are.

Answer 3

it's far too easy for an average person to take esoteric scientific info and derive all sorts of ideas about life. learn to accept the differences in people and you'll be farther ahead than most.

Answer 4

Hi, I dont know anything about science but I dont like the way ur talking about Robbie Williams...just because ur jealous that ur not as handsome and gorgeous and amazing as him... I LOVE ROBBIE WILLIAMS....

Answer 5

Read " The Bell Curve " for the SCIENTIFIC answer to your question.
Then think about the implications by OBSERVING the World behavior around you.

Answer 6

Clearly some humans are mostly chimp http://www.bushorchimp.com/

Answer 7

there were orangutan,orangsini and orangsana.
whichever would've been prefrABLEd.