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25Jun 2025 by Post

Why Is the 1 Percent Myth So Beloved?

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When a belief conflicts with common sense present-day reality, it is usually upholding an irrational value. Source

14Jun 2025 by Post

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

27May 2025 by Post

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

23May 2025 by Post

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

21May 2025 by Post

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

20May 2025 by Post

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

13Mar 2025 by Post

PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

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There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. Source

31Jan 2025 by Post

Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism

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Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency. Source

08Dec 2024 by Post

Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language

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What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them Source

07Dec 2024 by Post

Who (or What) First Used Tools?

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It’s not stone tool use that is exclusive to humans; vultures can do that too. It’s the ability to form abstract ideas. Source

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