Third Chimp to First Chimp: ‘Welcome Home’?

Chimps are human, gene study implies: “With just 0.6% difference in the most critical DNA sites, the new work suggests chimps should be in the same taxonomic group as humans.

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It is not the first time such a suggestion has been made – in 1991 physiologist and ecologist Jared Diamond called humans ‘the third chimpanzee’. But subsequent genetic comparisons have yielded varying results, depending on how the genotypes are compared.” New Scientist