Happy New Year! No. 1 Story for 2025: Bombshell Overturns Myth of 1 Percent Difference

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This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Source
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The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

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Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Source
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Getting Out Truth Around Mainstream News

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This was a major accomplishment, considering how intelligent design proponents or anyone who critiques evolution is treated in mainstream media. Source
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Challenged on the “1 Percent” Myth, Smithsonian Gives a Meaningless Non-Answer

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Note to President Trump: I find this pretty disrespectful to the people who pay the bills at the Smithsonian. Source
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Letter to the Smithsonian: Correct Your Signage on Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity!

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Unfortunately, the 1 percent myth is promulgated as fact at, among other places, the nation's own Smithsonian Institution. Source
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Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

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The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Source
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Fact Check: New “Complete” Chimp Genome Shows 14.9 Percent Difference from Human Genome

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

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This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Source
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