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To: w molloy who wrote (554)	9/15/1999 7:17:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 69300

>in the same locations.< Can't be the same locations. Human skull and chimp skull are very different, just as a Taurus and Cadillac are morphologically way different. "Analogous" locations maybe after you've corrected for geometry ... but not the same. You might think I'm splitting follicles here, but the point is Bonobo genes are so different from human genes that ... the skull is shaped all different arms are adapted for tree dwelling brain is wired to be OK with constant sex and so on... This is much more than a .1% divergence. As for "gene sequences" ... which ones? Human gene sequences are poorly understood, so Bonobo ones must be even more of a closed box. And which base-pair changes are the "important" ones? You don't want to argue that "house" shares an 80% sequence similarity to "louse". Perhaps that is the bottom line of my discomfiture - measuring "similarity" in a digital medium is meaningless when making comparisons of their analog output, be it music or phenotypes.

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