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Slappy_G t1_isjxerj wrote

Reply to comment by adc34 in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa

This is totally unrelated but I've also heard the figure of 1.6% for how different chimpanzees are compared to humans. So has that figure been revised, or are we saying that the variation inside of humans is much closer to the variation between the two species?

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Cuco1981 t1_isk0dcq wrote

The differences are too complex to be reduced to a simple percentage. For instance, we have differing number of chromosomes.

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