Comparative Genomics🔗

The human and chimpanzee genomes are 96% identical. The 4% gap makes a profound difference in the physical and psychological presentation (phenotype) of these two species.

Genes not only transmit information from generation to generation, but actually on a minute to minute basis.

For example, language which is unique to humans, has been tracked down to a double mutation in a gene called "FOX P2". This single factor forms the entire basis for verbal communication in the human species