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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."
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What reason is there to consider the Bonobo and Chimpanzee different species?
Is it just a matter of behavior? If so, has it been proven that the behavioral differences aren't cultural?
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!
I thought this was known. My copy of The Ancestors Tale is several years old, and it says chimps and bonobs are closer cousins to each other than either is to humans, which means they are equally distantly related to humans, genetically speaking.
So what if they share 99% of our DNA? We perhaps share 50% with a banana. And we all share 100% of a few dozen chemical elements.
Three billion DNA pairs in human dna. 1% is 30 million. So we differ by 30 million dna pairs. To the layperson, saying we have 30 million differences explains the differences quite well versus 99% in common.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
My mom is my closest relative.
Erm, Bonobos (Pan paniscus) are "chimps": they share the genus "Pan" (=chimpanzee") with the "common chimpanzee" (Pan troglodytes).
The bonobo has three times the intelligence of the "slashdotius anonymious cowardius" species.
I didn't come from no monkey's butthole
Okay, I read this twice.
Two. Different. Species. Equally. Close.
On behalf of the Old Earth Creationists, let me request that this is presented such it doesn't practically beg Young Earth Creationists to scoff at science here.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
Are they single?
Since bonobos are the same genus, I'm not really surprised that they would be as close to us, genetically, as the other members of that genus (there are only two species in the genus Pan). But maybe there's just something I'm missing about how biology works (which wouldn't be surprising either since I'm not a biologist).
What next? Donald Trump?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Sorry.
No brain, no pain.
So the GP is right, and you are creating a complete straw man. Wolf, dog and dingo are all part of the same genus but for historic reasons dogs and dingos are only formally called wolves, not in colloquial speech. Foxes and coyotes are from different genera and are not dogs. "Jackal" is a colloquialism. Because pan paniscus and pan troglodytes are in the genus pan, they can both quite properly be called chimpanzees, just as we refer to members of the genus homo as "men", though we are no more like h. afarensis than bonobos are like p. troglodytes. When I tell my dog not to behave like a little wolf, he can reasonably argue that he is one, just one adapted for a specific ecological niche.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
clear she coul3n0't
Doesn't the evidence show that bonobos and chimps split from their common ancestor long after protohumans split from the common ancestor of all three? In which case, isn't this more-or-less exactly what you'd expect?
My closest human relatives live in Louisiana and they're not Bonabos or Chimps from what I can tell.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
They both had the same common ancestor, so they're both equally as far away from us as each other. Now I suppose if they're counting mutations... differences only, it's possible there have been more in one than the other..
Okay, I -accept- the universe was created, and -reject- that it is 6000 years old.
Pick the word you want to use for that
I have a few words for that: "day-age creationism", and "sensible".
That's gay.
Old news, bonobos are the closest.
No doubt his place in the evolutionary pile.
As I understand it, a typical Bonobo makes the horniest human look like a monk. They fuck practically their entire waking lives. They have almost no sexual taboos -- a female won't have sex with her offspring, but that's about it. A human who wanders into their camps will be propositioned immediately and often..
I often wonder if the lack of knowledge about them (it's not so long since researchers stopped calling them "pygmy chimps" and started regarding them as a separate species) comes from sheer embarassment.
So what? Chimpanzees have at most 80% DNA similarity with humans. Or have you believed the hype? What a rube. Folks checking THE REST OF THE DNA have noticed that certain deceptive researchers cherry[picked which parts of the genetic code they'd sequence. Check all of it and one gets a very different story; obviously, as they wanted similarity, they only checked where they figured similarity would be, the cheaters.
Cranky educator.
We've known this for a long, long time... I learned this in college 10 years ago. =|
I'm guessing the summary is just misrepresenting the discovery as a more complete sequencing showing, in pure statistical terms, what we've known without the full sequence?
Well, I'm sitting here, watching my kid. And it looks like a toss-up.
Have gnu, will travel.
But are you mud on your mother's side or your father's side?
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
I always thought that female bonobos are quite chraming.
Yes, Chimpanzees are a close relation to humans, as are Elephants, Snails, Ants, Whales, Dolphins ETC, ETC, ETC. Monkeys look similar, But are far, far removed from even coming close to being related any more than an elephant. I am constantly amazed at so called scientists contemplating such connection with no concrete evidence what so ever, Crazy people! Even Crazy Charlie Darwin admitted there is no connection, and yet to many he is god. As I say, Crazy!
Can't think of anything clever or funny.