Protein production (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 21:04 (4594 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what are percentage of similarity to chimps is after this. It was around 80% before they started including some of the non-coding genes, and the last count I heard was around 60%... wonder if the trend will continue until people can say with some degree of certainty that mutating from a chimp into a human was, if not impossible, excruciatingly highly unlikely.-Actually, the split began over 20 million years ago with a change in vertebrae preparing for the upright posture. (See Aaron Filler's book, The Upright Ape 
http://www.amazon.com/The-Upright-Ape-Origin-Species/dp/1564149331/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333569323&sr=1-2-The final split from chimps, based on DNA was about 6 million years ago, gorillas at about 8-10 mya. In the fetus comparison, everyone looks like human babies in the beginning and then apes develop the larger jaw, etc.,(Sci Am article about 1992) while our babies stay the same. Adding the very recent finding of the hominin with the ape foot shows how our line was probably the dominant branch with the apes splitting off from us. We did not leave the trees and then get upright in the savannah. We were upright in the trees and left when we found we could with our new posture. It took a little while to get rid of the longer arms. Apes 'R not us, although atheists want it that way. I firmly believe in evoution with a purpose.