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Originally posted by SLPx:
I was wondering when the creation crowd was going to try to make something of this.
Sadly, it isn't what the titles of the news articles make it out to be:
"But he also found that the DNA of both species was littered with indels. His comparisons revealed that they add around another 4.0 per cent to the genetic differences."
Indels - insertions and deletions - can be many hundreds of base pairs in length.
Such insertions and deleteions are most likely one-time events, so phylogeneticists, for example, consider them as a single unit of change.
Britten just included the base pairs of indels in his count.
It really does not have the impact that the news articles' titles imply.
Even than it is still a high enough number to show a recent common ancestor.
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