Difference between Apes and Hominids

[Ronin Truth]

Difference between Apes and Hominids

There is a great difference between the apes and hominids. Apes can be found in trees and also on the land while hominids are exclusively terrestrial. Apes are not fully bipedal like the hominids. Hominids also have a unique characteristic that shows pair bonding with another member and also having a home base, where apes lack that certain developmental trait. It has been shown that apes are not very good with food sharing, while hominids have been shown to care and share food with other members of the group. This is also a development of social groups. Hominids such as the **** habilis, were discovered with the first making and use of tools and also fire. Apes have not found the ability to make and use tools. Scientific studies also show that the apes have a much smaller brain than the hominids resulting in these vast differences between the two groups.

http://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/courses/fa...s-and-hominids

Then how come our DNA is 98% the same as chimps and 95% the same as gorillas? Chimps are closer to us than to gorillas.

What is wrong with this picture?

[Acala]

http://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/courses/fa...s-and-hominids

Then how come our DNA is 98% the same as chimps and 95% the same as gorillas? Chimps are closer to us than to gorillas.

What is wrong with this picture?

First of all, science does not fully understand how DNA works.

Secondly, most of DNA relates to things that are unseen - like cell structure, protein synthesis, metabolic processes, etc. We share the vast majority of our DNA with even simpler organisms like fish. In the large scheme of things, the differences between chimps and hominids are tiny and can be managed by very small changes in DNA.

[jllundqu]

First of all, science does not fully understand how DNA works.

Secondly, most of DNA relates to things that are unseen - like cell structure, protein synthesis, metabolic processes, etc. We share the vast majority of our DNA with even simpler organisms like fish. In the large scheme of things, the differences between chimps and hominids are tiny and can be managed by very small changes in DNA.

This.

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[Occam's Banana]

You share 50% of your DNA with bananas.

[Deborah K]

You share 50% of your DNA with bananas.

And about 60% with a fruit fly.

[Occam's Banana]

You share 50% of your DNA with bananas.

And about 60% with a fruit fly.

[William Tell]

And about 60% with a fruit fly.

Yeah, that's because fruit flies have a higher concentration of banana DNA in them than Bananas do...

[Occam's Banana]

Yeah, that's because fruit flies have a higher concentration of banana DNA in them than Bananas do...

Fruit flies like a banana. Time flies like an arrow.

But I don't know what (kind of) flies like a giraffe ...

[erowe1]

http://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/courses/fa...s-and-hominids

Then how come our DNA is 98% the same as chimps and 95% the same as gorillas? Chimps are closer to us than to gorillas.

What is wrong with this picture?

Chimps and gorillas are both apes.

[William Tell]

Fruit flies like a banana. Time flies like an arrow.

But I don't know what (kind of) files like a giraffe ...

Biting mosquito's are friends with giraffes.

[erowe1]

You share 50% of your DNA with bananas.

And about 60% with a fruit fly.

It looks like both of these claims are inaccurate.
http://genetics.thetech.org/online-e...s/genes-common

ETA: What do I know? Here's something on the 60% with the fruit fly.
http://www.genome.gov/10005835

[Deborah K]

Yeah, that's because fruit flies have a higher concentration of banana DNA in them than Bananas do...

Wait for it.......


Wait for it.......

[William Tell]

It looks like both of these claims are inaccurate.
http://genetics.thetech.org/online-e...s/genes-common

At least we are 85% Zebra fish, maybe they are our grandparents.

[William Tell]

It looks like both of these claims are inaccurate.
http://genetics.thetech.org/online-e...s/genes-common

ETA: What do I know? Here's something on the 60% with the fruit fly.
http://www.genome.gov/10005835

[Deborah K]

It looks like both of these claims are inaccurate.
http://genetics.thetech.org/online-e...s/genes-common

ETA: What do I know? Here's something on the 60% with the fruit fly.
http://www.genome.gov/10005835

Uh no...

The fledgling field of comparative genomics has already yielded some dramatic results. For example, a March 2000 study comparing the fruit fly genome with the human genome discovered that about 60 percent of genes are conserved between fly and human. Or, to put it more simply, the two organisms appear to share a core set of genes. Researchers have found that two-thirds of human cancer genes have counterparts in the fruit fly. Even more surprisingly, when scientists inserted a human gene associated with early-onset Parkinson's disease into fruit flies, they displayed symptoms similar to those seen in humans with the disorder, raising the possibility that the tiny insects could serve as a new model for testing therapies aimed at Parkinson's.

http://www.genome.gov/10005835

N/M you caught it.

[juleswin]

First of all, science does not fully understand how DNA works.

Secondly, most of DNA relates to things that are unseen - like cell structure, protein synthesis, metabolic processes, etc. We share the vast majority of our DNA with even simpler organisms like fish. In the large scheme of things, the differences between chimps and hominids are tiny and can be managed by very small changes in DNA.

That is actually not true. Science understands DNA very well. The problem is that humans carry along DNA as they evolve which means that you can find some of the DNAs that we used when we were say a single cell organism. I don't remember the percentage anymore, but only a small fraction of your DNA actually code for any protein in humans. If you actually checked for the DNAs that actually coded for proteins in humans and chimps, you will then see the real difference between the 2.

[William Tell]

Wait for it.......


Wait for it.......

Ye are wha' ye' eat, lassie!

[Ronin Truth]

Yep, I still think our species is a genetically engineered hybrid.