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Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives
sciencehabit writes "Chimpanzees now have to share the distinction of being our closest living relative in the animal kingdom. An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it shares the same percentage of its DNA with us as chimps do. The team also found some small but tantalizing differences in the genomes of the three species—differences that may explain how bonobos and chimpanzees don't look or act like us even though we share about 99% of our DNA."
Always figured they were closely related to man, considering how endlessly horny they are.
I always figured that conservatives evolved from the innocent-seeming but violent, territorial, face-eating chimpanzees, and liberals evolved from those oversexed, touchy-feely bonobos. Now we know the truth!
Is she a bonobo or a chimpanzee?
"Is it just a matter of behavior? "
That too. Chimps will fuck you up, given the chance, Bonobos will just fuck you.
Humans have 23 chromosome pairs.... 46 chromosomes in total. In women, there are 2 X and in males, 1X and 1Y. Males of our species share 45/46 or 98% with females.
Explains why I understand male monkeys much better than female humans
Oooh Oooh Ah Ah Ah
I didn't come from no monkey's butthole
It's an honest mistake. Most people just assume there's a family resemblance.
I take issue with that campaign about bonobos being the most intelligent ape. Humans deserve at least an honourable mention.
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That's for history to decide. Which, of course, will be written by the victorious species. I for one preemptively welcome or future bonobo overlords.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
If your dog's making reasonable arguments then he's filling a rare ecological niche indeed. Impressive!
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Well, that does explain why they don't visit Slashdot.