That’s why contextualizing the human and chimp similarity is so important!

Regardless of method we’re more similar than rats are to mice.

Mm imagine comparing two copies of the same 100 page book but one copy has five extra copies of page 5 and page 7 is printed backwards.

How similar are those books? Do we compare page number? Word count? Letter count?

This is the “problem” with comparative genomics!

We’ve known this for years…by that same method humans can differ by as much as ~14% since it’s primarily due to structural differences.

2% versus 15% is comparing two different methods, it’s apples and oranges. I talk about it after chatting with an author here:

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Paranthropines missed 🥲

It kind of makes me think the universe is a simulation or something it’s that funny it feels unrealistic

I hear his spine is also on lend!

I always thought Symphalangus was the outgroup! That’s wild!

It’s such a perfect storm for them and yet…where is their renaissance?

I’m doing it because teaching evolution so fun, and because I think people might find utility in seeing how evolution is taught and how a creationist receives it.

Idk that that is very sensationalist, that’s just what’s happening.

Maaaan this is sick! Thank you for sharing! I’m surprised heroforge had the tools to make it so accurate…

Wow this rocks!! Thank you! You nailed my head shape lmao

Niche vs niche is a classic in the bio community

He was a cercopithecoid
She was a hominoid
Can I make it any more obvious?