Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Chimps, Humans Differ More Then Thought

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-our-past dept.

DrLudicrous writes "CNN is carrying an article about a researcher at CalTech. Biologist Roy Briton undertook a comparison of human and chimp genomes, and came up with a 5% difference, versus the usual 2% cited in the literature. You can read the article at CNN. This seems to point out that chimps and humans most likely had a more distant ancestor than thought- but the results also need to be examined and redone by 3rd parties to ensure objectivity. Interesting stuff."

2 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. um, clarification please by diesel_jackass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not to be a troll...

    but is it "then thought" or "than thought" ?

    --
    THERE IS NO DATA. THERE IS O
  2. optimistic by sydlexic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that's an extremely optimistic interpretation of the title given the history of the usage of the words 'then' and 'than' on slashdot. if I have one pet peeve with this crowd, it's the inability of an otherwise bright bunch to grasp the basic usage of these two vastly different words.