Genome
- From: Suzana <suznet@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:33 -0700
Man with all his noble qualities still bears in his bodily frame the
indelible stamp of his lowly origine.
Charles Darwin
'Consider this; We are, to a 98% approximation, chimpanzees, and they
are, with 98 % confidence human beings. If that doesn't dent your self
esteem consider that chimpanzees are only 97% gorillas, and humans are
also 97% per cent gorillas. In other words we are more chimpanzee like
then gorillas are.
There is no bone in chimpanzee body we do not share. There is no known
chemical in chimpanzee brain that can not be found in human brain.
There is no known immune system, digestive system, the vascular
system, the lymph system or the nervous system that we have and
chimpanzee don't or vice versa. There is not even a brain lobe in
chimpanzee brain that we do not share.'
All this is possible because we share the same building block of life
(as any organic form on this planet) called genes. If I were to read
to you human genome one word per second for eight hours per day it
would have taken me a century. That is how incredibly large and
complex it is. And yet we share 98 per cent of it with chimpanzees.
Now genes are not only the recipe for our physical appearance they
also influence our behaviour.
Let me remind you we have 2 per cent difference in genome between us
and chimpanzee. This is significant similarity. Significant enough to
rid us of our vanity when comparing our selves to animal kingdom.
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