Apparently we're not 99% identical to Chimps?

Question

According to new scientific finds, humans can be 10-12% genetically different from each other! I wonder how different we are from Apes now!!!!

http://voanews.com/english/archive/2006-11/2006-11-22-voa80.cfm?CFID=24061736&CFTOKEN=55094380

BTW, this is legit. So spare me your "this guy isn't a real scientist" garbage!

I'm being asked what my point is. My point is that evolutionsist use DNA as proof by saying that we're 99% the same as apes are. Well this study says different! That's my point!

Answer 1

So what if we are 99% identical to chimps? The same God that made the chimp also made me. Probably used similar blueprints. Did you know that the human eye is almost identical to the eye of an octopus? So what does that mean? Our blood is almost identical to pigs blood. And mother's milk is only off by one atom from soy milk. Now that doesn't mean we evolved form soy plants, but that we both had the same Creator.

PRETENCE. With all your numbers showing how close humans and chimps are, can you point to one missing link between a chimp and a human. Chimps always give birth to chimps, and humans always give birth to humans. It's been that way for the last 6,000 years.

Answer 2

The difference between chimpanzees and humans due to single-nucleotide substitutions averages 1.23 percent, of which 1.06 percent or less is due to fixed divergence, and the rest being a result of polymorphism within chimp populations and within human populations. Insertion and deletion (indel) events account for another approximately 3 percent difference between chimp and human sequences, but each indel typically involves multiple nucleotides. The number of genetic changes from indels is a fraction of the number of single-nucleotide substitutions (roughly 5 million compared with roughly 35 million). So describing humans and chimpanzees as 98 to 99 percent identical is entirely appropriate (Chimpanzee Sequencing 2005).


The difference measurement depends on what you are measuring. If you measure the number of proteins for which the entire protein is identical in the two species, humans and chimpanzees are 29 percent identical (Chimpanzee Sequencing 2005). If you measure nonsynonymous base pair differences within protein coding regions, humans and chimps are 99.75 percent identical (Chimpanzee Sequencing 2005, fig. 9). The original 98.4 percent estimate came from DNA hybridization experiments, which measured (indirectly, via DNA melting temperature) sequence difference among short segments of the genomes that are similar enough to hybridize but with repetitive elements removed (Sibley and Ahlquist 1987). Whatever measure is used, however, as long as the same measurement is used consistently, will show that humans are more closely related to chimpanzees (including the bonobo, sister species to the common chimpanzee) than to any other species.

Note also, though, that evolution has not been uniform throughout the genomes, so estimates of human-chimp divergence which consider only part of the genome can give different results (Britten 2002, Chen et al. 2001).
References:
Britten, Roy J. 2002. Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and human DNA sequences is 5% counting indels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 99: 13633-13635.
Chen, F.-C., E. J. Vallender, H. Wang, C.-S. Tzeng, and W.-H. Li. 2001. Genomic divergence between human and chimpanzee estimated from large-scale alignments of genomic sequences. Journal of Heredity 92(6): 481-489.
Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. 2005. Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome. Nature 437: 69-87.
Sibley, C. G. and J. E. Ahlquist. 1987. DNA hybridization evidence of hominid phylogeny: Results from an expanded data set. Journal of Molecular Evolution 26: 99-121.

Answer 3

if we all came from the same being we should be a lot more identical. 10-12% difference and we all came from a single set of parents (adam and eve)

how far fetched is evolution from apes in this sense? at least we wouldnt have evolved from a single pair of apes.

and i believe evolution teaches we have a common ancestor with these apes. not that we came from them.

Answer 4

OH NOES!! Somebody did the math wrong and now all science is invalidated! Evolution is a lie! Gravity doesn't exist! The moon is really made of cheese!

Answer 5

I know the only humans who ever evolved are the scientists in their perversive thoughts and ideas.

NOT ME, FELLOW! I feel blessed to be created in the image of God.

Answer 6

Didn't check your link but I imagine a few million years of evolution will make quite a few changes.

What was your point?

Answer 7

Oh, well, I guess we can just toss the entire Theory of Evolution out the window...not.

Answer 8

It's good to know I'm not related to the hillbililies living next door to me.

Answer 9

Here, meet your ancestor:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/dikikababy/

Answer 10

very strange we are all closer to chimpos than other humans. well the Lord workd in misterius ways who are we to complain.