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Monday, 12 March 2012

Title: An insight into human evolution from the gorilla genome sequence


Main summary
We all know that scientists think that we evolved from monkeys. They aren’t sure from which one. A group of scientists compared human and monkey genomes. They’re discovery is that a lot of parts of the human genome resemble the gorilla genome more than they do the chimpanzee genome.15% of human genome resembles gorilla genome and 15% of gorilla genome resembles chimpanzee genome.
My thoughts
I think that this is a cool discovery and that this will help a lot with discovering the evolution of humans. The only problem is that testing is hard because gorillas are endangered species and some other monkeys are to. I wonder what we evolved from and those that animal still exist or did it evolve into another animal and then become extinct.