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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2011 13:06:47 GMT -5
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 27, 2011 14:01:45 GMT -5
With all due respect, you seem to have completely misunderstood the story. Humans and chimps are exactly as similar as they were yesterday and as they will be tomorrow. The story was about trying to figure out what parts of the DNA are what make the differences.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2011 14:04:12 GMT -5
To paraphrase Inigo, I don't think this means what you think it means.
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Post by elevationvb on Oct 27, 2011 18:53:41 GMT -5
To paraphrase Inigo, I don't think this means what you think it means. Are you saying that ccvcdad is part chimp? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2011 20:25:36 GMT -5
We are all chimpy.
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 27, 2011 23:44:41 GMT -5
I like to climb trees and eat bananas (and occasionally pick through friends hair for bugs) ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 10:52:16 GMT -5
With all due respect, you seem to have completely misunderstood the story. Humans and chimps are exactly as similar as they were yesterday and as they will be tomorrow. The story was about trying to figure out what parts of the DNA are what make the differences. and with all due respect, mike, you seem to have misunderstood my point. most people will use the fact of "nearly identical dna sequences" to conclude that humans and chimps are "nearly identical". this article should put such reasoning to bed. thus, my comment in the op. the key excerpts(emphases mine): "...the insertion and deletion of large pieces of DNA near genes are highly variable between humans and chimpanzees and may account for major differences between the two species." "...while the DNA sequence of genes between humans and chimpanzees is nearly identical, there are large genomic "gaps" in areas adjacent to genes that can affect the extent to which genes are "turned on" and "turned off.""Transposable elements were once considered 'junk DNA' with little or no function. Now it appears that they may be one of the major reasons why we are so different from chimpanzees." "Our findings are generally consistent with the notion that the morphological and behavioral differences between humans and chimpanzees are predominately due to differences in the regulation of genes rather than to differences in the sequence of the genes themselves," said McDonald. what does this last statement mean? it means that, despite nearly identical gene sequencing, the now-discovered differences in gene regulation lessens the similarity between human and chimp, as these differences produce -- in the words of the article -- "major differences between the two species". what was was considered unmeaningful "junk" has been proven to be quite meaningful. ironic. we may indeed be "exactly as similar" as before, mike. but that degree of similarity as we now understand it is less than we thought, as we have discovered the additional differences in gene regulation -- real, physical, provable differences -- which were previously unknown. we are not as similar as some thought we were... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 11:48:50 GMT -5
To paraphrase Inigo, I don't think this means what you think it means.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 13:23:11 GMT -5
i hear an echo...  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 13:40:33 GMT -5
It's inherited from the chimps.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 19:29:50 GMT -5
not possible... |
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Post by OptimusPrime on Oct 29, 2011 11:41:07 GMT -5
I like to climb trees and eat bananas (and occasionally pick through friends hair for bugs) ;D Good to know! ;D |
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Post by pineapple on Nov 1, 2011 7:07:56 GMT -5
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Post by pineapple on Nov 1, 2011 7:09:22 GMT -5
I like to climb trees and eat bananas (and occasionally pick through friends hair for bugs) ;D Good to know! ;D I knew it long ago. He's tired of playing one-man solitaire. |
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Post by pineapple on Nov 1, 2011 7:13:42 GMT -5
I wonder what happened to Wolfgang? Ever thought of joining his gang, lonewolf?I once chatted with a lonewolf but in a spiritual healing venue.
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