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Our chimp cousin's secret code
US scientists have recently taken a huge bipedal leap for mankind by mapping the entire genetic code of our closest living hairy cousin - the common chimpanzee. So just how alike are we? Antenna investigates this monkey business...

This story was published in Nature on 1 September 2005.






The primate code uncoveredThe primate code uncovered
Whose genome is it?Whose genome is it?
Testing: the great ape debateTesting: the great ape debate
First fossil chimpFirst fossil chimp
 

 

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