OMG!! Humans are more closely related to chimps than to other humans!!!

I just skimmed through the full text of the cited paper, and I can't see any answer to that. My thinking is that Wounded King is deliberately misleading us...I did see a study while I was searching around, by Perry, GH et al titled Hotspots for copy number variation in chimpanzees and humans (PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 103 (21): 8006-8011 MAY 23 2006). It seemed to be more on comparing the human/human and the chimp/chimp gap though:

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We have identified an average of 31 CNVs in each of the 20 chimpanzees studied, compared to an average of 12.4 CNVs per person among the 55 human genomes interrogated in the Iafrate et al. study. This finding implies that overall chimpanzee genetic diversity may be more extensive than was previously thought; a notion that is based on estimates of general nuclear DNA sequence diversity among the western chimpanzee subspecies being similar to that of the human species as a whole. It is unclear whether this unexpected difference between chimpanzees and humans reflects species-level differences in selective pressures on copy number variation or higher duplication/deletion mutation rates in chimpanzees or both. Detailed studies on the evolutionary histories of specific CNV loci in both humans and chimpanzees may help resolve this issue.

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Maybe WK can explain where he got the idea for the title from?

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