Announcements Quote by Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

We share half our genes with the banana.

— Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

“Fifty percent of human DNA is identical to the DNA of a banana. —”

— Sheryl Scarborough

“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

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and…

— Sebastian Faulks

“In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

— Leroy Hood

“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.”

— Nicholas Wade

“The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and that, like…

— Ian McCallum

“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

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

— Barry Schuler

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic…

— Colin Camerer

We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important,…

— William J. Clinton