percent dna difference between humans and chimpanzee
Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds. Scientists have sequenced the genome of the chimpanzee and found that humans are 96 percent similar to the great ape species. Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apesâhe didn't go far enough, said Frans de Waal, a primate scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.