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...international team of scientists led by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as Washington University in St. Louis recently completed a genetic map of the chimpanzee and discovered that chimp DNA is 96 percent identical to that of humans...
...Because the chimp is so close, its physiology is remarkably similar, so that provides us with a way of looking at ourselves in a different context,” said Robert H. Waterston, chair of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, who worked on the project. “And more importantly, in places where the chimp differs from humans in physiology and response to disease, we can use genetic differences to figure out what is going...
This relatively low number of significant variations, which have occurred since chimps and humans evolved from a common ancestor six million years ago, leaves almost 99 percent of human DNA identical to the chimp genome...
...Estimated number of words a chimp can learn to communicate in sign language...
That understanding is nothing short of revolutionary. Only a decade or so ago, scientists were arguing vigorously over whether animals had emotions: just because a dog looks sad or a chimp appears to be embarrassed doesn't mean it really is, the skeptics said. That argument is pretty much over. The idea of animal emotion is now accepted as part of mainstream biology. And thanks to Bekoff and other researchers, ethologists are also starting to accept the once radical idea that some animals--primarily the social ones such as dogs, chimps, hyenas, monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats--possess...