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You’re Not a Monkey’s Uncle

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, Culture, Christianity, Currentevents, Worldview, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to retire the myth that humans are 99% the same as chimps.  

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What a myth repeated often in museums, textbooks, and nature documentaries that most people

1:05.3

now accept just as dogma is that humans and chimpanzees share about 98 to 99% of our DNA. The Smithsonian Museum of Natural

1:13.7

History in Washington, D.C., for example, cites that statistic in its human origins exhibit as confirmation

1:20.2

that, quote, modern humans and chimpanzees diverge from a common ancestor between eight and six million

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years ago, end quote.

1:28.0

The only problem is that the statistic is just wrong, likely by an order of magnitude.

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Even more, the science community has known that it's wrong for quite a while now, and new

1:37.4

methods of comparing the genomes of humans and Great Ape show just how genetically different

1:42.0

the two are.

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In fact, the cited one to two percent

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difference hasn't been defensible in years now. As far back as 2007 authors in the journal

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