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01 Feb 22
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@divegeester saidDo you have a source for that statement?
We share 99.9% identical DNA with each other. This is a statistic which I find astonishing, especially considering how different we are from each other.
Some might say “thank goodness for the decimal point!”
And without the decimal point, we’d be 999% the same, which doesn’t really make any sense
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@divegeester saidNumbers mean nothing. Choices do matter. 😉
It’s generally accepted in genetics and easy to verify, look it up.
No, without the decimal point 99.9 would be rounded up to 100.
01 Feb 22
@executioner-brand saidNo we don’t. It’s best not to get your info from the first hit in your Google search. We share approximately 60% of our DNA with fruit such as banana which has been mapped. 96% is shared with a chimpanzee.
more startling, we share 99 percent of our DNA with a lettuce.
The reason the numbers are so high (in case you are interested), is that living things share the same basic biomechanics at a cellular level, and with animals at an organ and systemic level. So much of the genetic code goes into building similar functionality.
A single human cell itself is an amazing piece of biological engineering, the internal structures and mechanisms are a story of creation on their own.
@kevin-eleven removed their quoted postTry to control your urge to spout off blurts of angst Kevin Eleven.
@divegeester saidVive La difference
We share 99.9% identical DNA with each other. This is a statistic which I find astonishing, especially considering how different we are from each other.
Some might say “thank goodness for the decimal point!”
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@divegeester saidI come from ocean-crossers. You don't.
Try to control your urge to spout off blurts of angst Kevin Eleven.
01 Feb 22
@pb1022 saidThere is a highly recommended book:
Do you have a source for that statement?
And without the decimal point, we’d be 999% the same, which doesn’t really make any sense
C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Akira Yasukouchi, Stanley Ulijaszek (Hrsg.): Human Variation. From the Laboratory to the Field (= Society for the Study of Human Biology. Symposium Series. Vol. 49). CRC Press, Boca Raton FL u. a. 2010
01 Feb 22
@kevin-eleven saidFun fact: My ancestor Johan Jakob Eckert emigrated to America in the 1830's. His daughter (who is my ancestor) stayed.
I come from ocean-crossers. You don't.
01 Feb 22
@kevin-eleven saidDon’t be silly.
I come from ocean-crossers. You don't.
If you are referring to the pilgrims, then their parents were my ancestors also.
Hundreds of assumptions permitting.
01 Feb 22
@kevin-eleven saidDon’t start with the gay.
@divegeester
It's cute that you have anything to say about anything.