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> >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?
Hi!
I don't really know if I'm giving you the right answer, and I might be
displaying a lot of ignorance (since I have a biology degree, but not in
genetics), but what I think is that the 98% of the genetic material that
you share with a chimp is in "genes for the same character" while in
relation to fellow human relatives it would be an actual copy of your gene
(e.g. gene for green eyes exactly like yours).
joana
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