Monkey Genome Gives New Insight Into What Makes Us Human

Posted by NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on April 23rd, 2007 at 10:00am

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the rhesus macaque and compared it to both the chimpanzee and the human genomes. Their analysis reveals that the three primate species share about 93% of their DNA.

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