Chimpanzee Quote by Jill Bolte Taylor

“To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of…

— Steve Jones

“[Professor Kinnerton] Has the fact that we have about 97 percent of our DNA in common with chimpanzees escaped you? How can you still…

— Peter Kazmaier

We now know that the structure of the DNA in humans and chimpanzees differs by only just over one percent. You could even have…

— Jane Goodall

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far…

— Jane Goodall

“As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant…

— Robert Trivers

In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.

— Alice Roberts

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have…

— Richard Dawkins

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard…

— Michael Behe

You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

— Bob Enyart

Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million…

— Richard Dawkins