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I also share genes with bananas and fish.
by joubert 17y ago
I also share genes with bananas and fish.
- eru 17y agoBut you are not a descendant of bananas or most fish.
- joubert 17y agoWe share a common ancestor
- eru 17y agoYes. But that's not what the article was about. Modern humans and Neanderthalians share much more genetic material than the 4% the article talked about. The 4% is the proportion of genetic material we inherited from them. And that's an interesting and non-trivial thing. So Neanderthalians were some of our ancestors. But bananas weren't.
- WilliamLP 17y agoIf your ancestors originated from an area of the world where there were bananas and fish, and shared more genes with them than people from other areas of the world, it would indeed raise interesting questions.