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by dekhn 1790 days ago
the chimpanzee factoid was distorted in a way that made the number look much larger than it really was. It only compared highly conserved regions in common between both organisms.
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So what would be the 'real' number?
dunno how you would measure it, for example if humans have an extra chromosome with a bunch of novel genes, how does that count? Or if the genes are identical but scrambled in order?

It's sort of not even a really useful metric unless defined carefully.