haxxiy said:
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.
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Well apart from the obvious 1 chromosone difference, it seems humans only differ 0.1% from each other.
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics (It's an american site though :p)
I guess it depends on how you measure it? Chimp DNA already differs 1.2% amongs the species according to that source.
Creationist already did jump on that btw, that's what turns up when I look for < 98% claims
http://creation.com/greater-than-98-chimp-human-dna-similarity-not-any-more
Yet 85% or 99%, still not alien, still share the same basic DNA structure.
