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From: davison@menudo.uh.edu (Dan Davison)
Subject: Re: Coelocanth and evolution: Human chr. differences
In-Reply-To: Vincent.A.Mazzarella@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org's message of 04 Jun 91 14: 01:54 EST
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 03:35:32 GMT

In article <676362297.46@egsgate.FidoNet.Org> Vincent.A.Mazzarella@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Vincent A Mazzarella) writes:

   But, of course, genomes of every human is quite different from every other
   human. What matters are those differences causing a change in phenotype.

Waitaminnithere.  "Quite?" Less than < 1% is quite?  Please define
what you mean.  The chimp-human sequence divergence is about 1%, which
I can't see a "quite different" by any stretch of the imagination. 

dan davison
davison@uh.edu

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