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

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

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2012/03/09/an_insight_into_human_evolution_from_the_gorilla_genome_sequence.html

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.