Scientific knowledge has exploded in the last 25 yrs. --------------- Scientific knowledge continues to explode myths. An analysis of the DNA of chimpanzees and orangutans, as well as of certain monkeys and macaques, has revealed that their genetic makeup is not as similar to man’s as scientists once thought. “Large differences in DNA, not small ones, separate apes and monkeys from both humans and each other,” says Britain’s New Scientist magazine. “There are large deletions and insertions sprinkled throughout the chromosome,” explains Kelly Frazer of Perlegen Sciences, the California, U.S.A., company that did the analysis. New Scientist characterized the differences as a “yawning gap [that] divides monkeys and us.” Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Projectbooks.google.com.au › books... the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at UT Southwestern. ... In the same issue of the journal, Kelly Frazer and Eric Topol of the Scripps ...Victor K. McElheny - 2012 - Science
