The K9 Comparison—What Dogs Tell Us About Humans

By Frank Miele on March 25, 2008 at 12:00am

[See Steve Sailer's review of Race: The Reality of Human Differencesimage, Routing The Race Deniers (Not That They'll Notice]

We share about 97% of our genes with chimpanzees. But when Francis Crick, co-discoverer with James D. Watson of the double helix structure of DNA, was asked what unraveling the chimpanzee genome would tell us about human differences he replied: "I wouldn't waste any American money on the chimp".