Chimps 'more evolved' than humans

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Life 16 April 2007

By Bob Holmes
It is time to stop thinking we are the pinnacle of evolutionary success – chimpanzees are the more highly evolved species, according to new research.
Evolutionary geneticist Jianzhi Zhang and colleagues at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, US, compared DNA sequences for 13,888 genes shared by human, chimp and rhesus macaques.
For each DNA letter at which the human or chimp genes differ from our shared ancestral form – inferred from the corresponding gene in macaques – researchers noted whether the change led to an altered protein. Genes that have been transformed by natural selection show an unusually high proportion of mutations leading to altered proteins.
Zhang’s team found that 233 chimp genes, compared with only 154 human ones, have been changed by selection since chimps and humans split from their common ancestor about 6 million years ago.





This contradicts what most evolutionary biologists had assumed. “We tend to see the differences between us and our common ancestor more easily than the differences between chimps and the common ancestor,” observes Zhang.
The result makes sense, he says, because until relatively recently the human population has been smaller than that of chimps, leaving us more vulnerable to random fluctuations in gene frequencies. This prevents natural selection from having as strong an effect overall.
Now that the macaque genome has been sequenced, biologists will be able to learn more about the differences between the apes.

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[Hexachordia]

Darwinism was at best a propaganda, as if it were an idiomatic traditional to believe in Darwinism. Chimps even have larger number of chromosomes(48 VS Humans` 46), powerful genes do not imply an intellectual advantage nor does natural selection. It is rather more feasible to consider intellectual development was a product of counter-adaptional evolution, because of refusal to adapt to the environment, therefore comes the intelligence. But this does not mean a destructive way of survival, rather being the last to adapt to the given environment after majority was adapted and changed.

[Richmondbread]

Evolution is a myth

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[Anglo-Celtic]

They might be on to something. Just look at Antifa rioters; they throw more poop than most chimpanzees.

[Roy]

So "chimping out" should be reevaluated as a highly evolved behaviour, right?

[Richmondbread]

So "chimping out" should be reevaluated as a highly evolved behaviour, right?

God made us in His image but we also have basic animal instincts that usually come out as a result of our fall in garden. When people lose control and give into basic animal needs :lust, fornication, anger, etc. it shows our fallen nature.

[Rædwald]

Chimps are more evolved than some humans

[Batavia]

Evolution is a myth

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And what about all the evidence that clearly proves that evolution is a fact?
Maybe there is a God, nobody knows - but evolution is not a theory; it´s a fact supported by numerous proofs.

[Richmondbread]

And what about all the evidence that clearly proves that evolution is a fact?
Maybe there is a God, nobody knows - but evolution is not a theory; it´s a fact supported by numerous proofs.

What evidence? It has been easily debunked. Evolution is no more fact than an urban legend .

[Lisyonok]

No more racism against chimps! Chimps deserve education and civilized life!

Well, it may be different thing about IQ. Both for chimps and some humans.