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Welcome to the genus?

Nature Reviews Genetics volume 4, page 488 (2003)Cite this article

A long-standing debate was reignited this month by Morris Goodman and colleagues at the Wayne State University in Detroit, who claim that humans and chimpanzees “are so alike at the level of their DNA that they should both be classified as members of the human genus Homo” (The Independent).

This controversial idea is not new. In 1991, Jared Diamond at the University of California dubbed humans “the third chimpanzee” and last year, Simon Easteal at the Australian National University agreed that this “makes sense; they are very similar to us, in genetic terms” (The Age).

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