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To: ~digs who wrote (1235)9/1/2005 10:19:17 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
Scientists said yesterday that they have determined the precise order of the 3 billion bits of genetic code that carry the instructions for making a chimpanzee, humankind's closest cousin.

washingtonpost.com

The fresh unraveling of chimpanzee DNA allows an unprecedented gene-to-gene comparison with the human genome, mapped in 2001, and makes plain the evolutionary processes through which chimps and humans arose from a common ancestor about 6 million years ago.