You’ve probably heard that the humans and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA. Is this true? MinuteEarth looks at how that factoid was born.
First, you have to realize that DNA doesn’t tell the whole story of genetics or a certain species’ genome. After all, humans and chimpanzees don’t even have the same number of chromosomes. And the task of comparing human and chimp DNA is more complicated than you thought, because DNA and its sequencing are tremendously complicated. -via Geeks Are Sexy
My mother told me that figures do not lie but liars do figure.