I was in a chat room and learned that the human genome project has proven that...
We are really just chimps whose proteins fold differently for some reason. See, our DNA is really just chimp DNA with a few extra strands of useless DNA.
I tried to say that our DNA is very similar, but has important differences. I pointed out that there billions of base pairs and 2% of billions is a significant difference. I asked why the proteins fold differently if the DNA is actually just the same with a few extra useless strands...answer: "it's a mystery." I wondered what about those poor human parents whose newborns' proteins did NOT fold differently.
Is this current thinking? We're just chimps whose proteins inexplicably fold differently??? Is this what the human genome project has determined?
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