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Surya Gayatri

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14. Why can't we humans take their example? Unless they're competing

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Mon May 30, 2016, 06:36 AM

May 2016

for food, DNA-diverse species get along fine in the animal world.

All humans are 99.9 per cent identical and, of that tiny 0.1 per cent difference, 94 per cent of the variation is among individuals from the same populations and only six per cent between individuals from different populations.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1416706/DNA-survey-finds-all-humans-are-99.9pc-the-same.html

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