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Maybe. A chimpanzee is much closer to a human than a monkey, which already had ~500 of the ~1600 proteins.
by mkale 10y ago
Maybe. A chimpanzee is much closer to a human than a monkey, which already had ~500 of the ~1600 proteins.
- gus_massa 10y agoI found a handy graph of the primate family: http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n5/fig_tab/nrg3707_F1.html http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n5/fig_tab/nrg3707_F1.... > The time of separation of the human lineage from the rhesus macaque lineage is dated at 28–25 million years ago, whereas the human and chimpanzee lineages are believed to have diverged ~9–5 million years ago.