{"id":101226,"date":"2020-06-21T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101226"},"modified":"2020-06-20T14:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:13:31","slug":"tiny-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101226","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Speaking of Apes in General:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/tiny-genetic-differences-between-humans-and-other-primates-pervade-the-genome<\/a><\/p>\n

We share up to 99% of our DNA with gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. So calling someone \u201cape\u201d is really not an insult to any species, because we are, as Desmond Morris put it so eloquently, naked apes. The fact that we have opposing thumbs, which our hairier cousins don\u2019t have, is what sets us just slightly apart from them. And while bonobos are essentially peaceful peeps, preferring a swing in the shade with a cold drink, gorillas and chimpanzees can be quite aggressive.<\/p>\n

Jane Goodall was utterly appalled when she discovered that her “peaceful” tribe of chimps not only got together to plan a raid on their neighbors, but also went ahead with it, killing them and cannibalizing them.\u00a0 Gorillas are, likewise, aggressive on an as-needed basis. Not a good idea to let your toddlers pound on the bullet-proof glass at the zoo and annoy the head gorilla. The glass has to be replaced repeatedly, because it isn’t angry gorilla-proof. As I understand it, however, they won’t turn down a cold glass of beer.<\/p>\n

From Sci-American article: In 1871 Charles Darwin surmised that humans were evolutionarily closer to the African apes than to any other species alive. The recent sequencing of the gorilla, chimpanzee and bonobo genomes confirms that supposition and provides a clearer view of how we are connected: chimps and bonobos in particular take pride of place as our nearest living relatives, sharing approximately 99 percent of our DNA, with gorillas trailing at 98 percent.<\/p>\n

Yet that tiny portion of unshared DNA makes a world of difference: it gives us, for instance, our bipedal stance and the ability to plan missions to Mars. Scientists do not yet know how most of the DNA that is uniquely ours affects gene function. But they can conduct whole-genome analyses\u2014with intriguing results. For example, comparing the 33 percent of our genome that codes for proteins with our relatives’ genomes reveals that although the sum total of our genetic differences is small, the individual differences pervade the genome, affecting each of our chromosomes in numerous ways. – article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of Apes in General: https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/tiny-genetic-differences-between-humans-and-other-primates-pervade-the-genome We share up to 99% of our DNA with gorillas, … Tiny Differences<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101227,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101226\/revisions\/101227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}