23May 2025 by Post

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

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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. Source
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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
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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
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11May 2024 by Post

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Source
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02Jul 2022 by Post

Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism

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Bechly and host Casey Luskin discuss cattle and bison, horses and donkeys, the Asian black bear and the South American spectacled bear, and more. Source
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29Mar 2022 by Post

Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

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There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Source
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14Feb 2022 by Post

Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry

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The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat. Source
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29Dec 2021 by Post

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

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Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Source
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