🧵 human/chimp relation
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:39:09 UTC No. 16077711
human an chimp relationship is weird: its like these two are the closest animals to reach other and its hard to find other examples from nature where two similar creatures are as closely related
mouse/rat: about double the difference that is between human/chimp
and woodpecker/crow: they have 5 times more divergence between each other than a human and chimp have from each other
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:24:41 UTC No. 16077814
>>16077790
I have to check this out.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:56:50 UTC No. 16077888
>>16077711
You are just being fooled by human centric thinking, rats and mice may look similar to you but they are just both rodents. It's just that lot of rodents basically look the same because of coevolution but the actual common ancestor of rat and mice is further than that of chimps and humans. Not to mention that rats and mice breed way faster thus leading to more rapid changes in genome. The difference is way bigger with crows and woodpeckers, may as well compare humans with cows at that point.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:39:26 UTC No. 16078150
>>16077790
whoah, crows are extremely close to each other, like humans and chimps but even more
these two species has considerable size difference yet they are very close by genetics