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Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Read More ›
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Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Read More ›
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What’s the Best Explanation for Human-Chimp Genetic Differences? 

We have broken a major story about a recently published study showing that the human and chimp genomes are 14.0 percent to 14.9 percent different. Read More ›
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Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent Functional DNA

I contacted the corresponding authors of the original study and they kindly offered their interpretation of the differences between the human and chimp genomes. Read More ›
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Fact Check: New “Complete” Chimp Genome Shows 14.9 Percent Difference from Human Genome

I suspect that this radical finding has implications — for human exceptionalism and more — that people will be discussing for a long time. Read More ›
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Bombshell: New Research Overturns Claim that Humans and Chimps Differ by Only 1 Percent of DNA

This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Read More ›
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Slow-Witted? Neanderthals Invented Their Own Tech — Didn’t Copy

Neanderthals cannot be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. But if the human mind has no history, there is no missing link. Read More ›
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Scopes “Monkey” Trial Is Turning One Hundred

Almost nothing happened quite the way the stereotypes have portrayed it since then. Read More ›
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On Evolution, Pope Francis Spoke and the Media Got it Wrong

According to Pope Francis, evolution per se still requires a Creator and cannot be the result of purely physical causes. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Read More ›

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