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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

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

07May 2025 by Post

Slow-Witted? Neanderthals Invented Their Own Tech — Didn’t Copy

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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. Source

12Apr 2025 by Post

Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

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

02Apr 2025 by Post

How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History: Case of the Stone Spheres

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Any state of affairs that dates to eons ago can be referred to as “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite. Source

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