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From: barger@ils.nwu.edu (Jorn Barger)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Man vs Woman vs Chimp DNA Percentages
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Date: 17 Sep 90 14:16:06 GMT
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Maybe it's biological folklore, but I often see the similarity of human 
and chimp DNA cited as 99%.  Given the X and Y chromosome thing, aren't 
men and women more dissimilar than that?  Am I therefore more closely 
related to male chimps than to female humans???

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after the longest time things got clear, then we saw something burning in 
the walls. everything got very clear, and we, our eyes fell through them.  
nothing could make amends.  when you give your heart to nothing, nothing 
comes back, in mortal patterns painted on the wall. do you hear me?  
immeasurably do i love you all... "Of the Hand in the Heart of the Mind"
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