Alan's blog » genetics http://www.alandix.com/blog just starting ... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:53:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 of monkeys and men http://www.alandix.com/blog/2006/12/31/of-monkeys-and-men/ http://www.alandix.com/blog/2006/12/31/of-monkeys-and-men/#comments Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:07:55 +0000 alan http://www.alandix.com/blog/?p=6 In my friend Nadeem’s blog he asks why can’t a woman be more like a man?

well Nad, I should explain, there is a biological basis for this ;-)

you will have often have seen remarks by geneticists that say we human beings share 99% of our genes with monkeys.

now also you know that in a man there is that vital Y chromosome that is totally unlike anything in a female cell

well we have 46 chromosomes, so that vital difference means that just over 2% of our genetic makeup is totally different from a woman – we share less than 98% of our genes with women

in other words men are genetically more similar to monkeys than women

and so here is a picture of my favourite monkey:

my monkey at the computer

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