Not a chimp : the hunt to find the genes that make us human
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Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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9780191567353, 0191567353
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1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) : illustrations
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Published
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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ONLINE
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English
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9780191567353, 0191567353

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-333) and index.
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Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A mere hair's breadth genetically! To a rather older tradition of anthropomorphizing chimps, trying to get them to speak, dressing them up for 'tea parties', was added the stamp of genetic confirmation. It.
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