Comments on: How detailed an understanding of evolution do we need? http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2009/10/how-detailed-understanding-of-evolution/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:46:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ngong http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2009/10/how-detailed-understanding-of-evolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1231 ngong Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:28:13 +0000 http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2009/10/how-detailed-an-understanding-of-evolution-do-we-need/#comment-1231 Anonymous...it all depends how you do the calculation. If you look at non-synonymous coding differences, it's .3%! Coding regions only...1.5%. Include large deletions/insertions, you get 5%. <br /><br /><br />http://efference.blogspot.com/2008/11/human-chimp-dna-similarities-truth-and.html Anonymous…it all depends how you do the calculation. If you look at non-synonymous coding differences, it's .3%! Coding regions only…1.5%. Include large deletions/insertions, you get 5%.

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]]> By: Larry Moran http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2009/10/how-detailed-understanding-of-evolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1230 Larry Moran Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:38:18 +0000 http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2009/10/how-detailed-an-understanding-of-evolution-do-we-need/#comment-1230 Everyone agrees that teaching evolution is extremely important. What we don't agree on is what sort of evolution should be taught. <br /><br />Here's the problem. The majority of Professors at a university have a very poor understanding of evolution; as expected, since they haven't been taught evolution properly.<br /><br />Yet those very same Professors are in charge of teaching evolution to the next generation of undergraduates!<br /><br /> Everyone agrees that teaching evolution is extremely important. What we don't agree on is what sort of evolution should be taught.

Here's the problem. The majority of Professors at a university have a very poor understanding of evolution; as expected, since they haven't been taught evolution properly.

Yet those very same Professors are in charge of teaching evolution to the next generation of undergraduates!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2009/10/how-detailed-understanding-of-evolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1229 Anonymous Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:19:29 +0000 http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2009/10/how-detailed-an-understanding-of-evolution-do-we-need/#comment-1229 Dr. Gregory, <br /> i have a question that may be slightly off-topic. i am a lay reader of your blog who is enormously confused about whether we are 1.5% different or 5% different genetically from chimpanzee (I heard a number of times the 1.5% figure quoted but i have also read you and craig venter quote a 5% figure). could you give me some idea of how these comparisons are carried out? and how do you reconcile the two figure or am i mistaken? Dr. Gregory,
i have a question that may be slightly off-topic. i am a lay reader of your blog who is enormously confused about whether we are 1.5% different or 5% different genetically from chimpanzee (I heard a number of times the 1.5% figure quoted but i have also read you and craig venter quote a 5% figure). could you give me some idea of how these comparisons are carried out? and how do you reconcile the two figure or am i mistaken?

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