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09/03/2007: "Humans DNA more different than thought"

"Instead of 99.9 percent identical, maybe we're only 99 percent (alike)," said J. Craig Venter, an author of the study — and the person whose DNA was analyzed for it.

The 99 percent figure is close to what scientists have often estimated for the similarity between humans and chimps. But the human-chimp similarity drops to more like 95 percent when the more recently discovered kinds of DNA variation are considered, Venter said.

[ Another politicized "scientific" statement debunked. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_on_sc/dna_differences