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The Tree
While I was waiting to see the audiologist today, I was reading about the sequencing of the chimpanzee genome and it's comparison with the human genome. Turns out the chimps are only 1.23% divergent from us.
But the image shows something that most people don't understand. Evolution is branching, not linear. And the image makes clear that we and the chimps (Chimpanzees and Bonobos) all share a common ancestor. Go back a little further and we're all related to the great apes, and back even futher and it's the orangutans.
I wonder what happened to the proposal to move chimpanzees from Pan Troglodytes to Homo Troglodytes.
The Tree
While I was waiting to see the audiologist today, I was reading about the sequencing of the chimpanzee genome and it's comparison with the human genome. Turns out the chimps are only 1.23% divergent from us.
But the image shows something that most people don't understand. Evolution is branching, not linear. And the image makes clear that we and the chimps (Chimpanzees and Bonobos) all share a common ancestor. Go back a little further and we're all related to the great apes, and back even futher and it's the orangutans.
I wonder what happened to the proposal to move chimpanzees from Pan Troglodytes to Homo Troglodytes.