SvennoJ said: Humans didn't evolve from chimps, yet we do have a common ancestor and share 99% of dna with chimps. |
More modern estimates point it to being between 89% and 96%. Some people are rather attached to it because... I don't know? Maybe it's an american thing, a sort of defense to keep those creationists from weaponizing a lower similarity on their favour? Mmm.
The 99% original estimate was funny because if you thoroughly analysed the DNA of a man and a woman, the difference would be more than 1% because the Y chromosome is over 1% of male genes has very little to do with the X chromosome, since they are millions of years apart of each other. The notion of males and females being further apart amongst themselves than a species removed over 5 million years is, of course, absurd. Only once I've seen a geneticist called on it on live TV eons ago.
OT - you might find interesting, if anything, to read Zecharia Sitchin, OP. His books even come on a boxed set which look like a completed fantasy series (hah) or something.