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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
>
>As a friend of mine once said of all those people who go on about us sharing
>98% of our genes with apes said, it's the 2% difference that matters.
Umm, "matters"? Depends on the context, surely.
I'm going to display my ignorance here, again, but I do believe that's about
the best way to learn. What about this calculation whereby I'm supposed to be
half as likely to endanger my own life to save my grandchild, as my child, the
idea being that my child has half my genes, while my grandchild has only a
quarter. How does that square with the notion that I share 98% of my genetic
material with any chimp?
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