A Beautiful Mind

What makes us human?

I think there is a sleeping syndrome in air. I am witnessing many bloggers in sleep state. Get up guys. Get the spirit back.
Let me take the initiative of waking up others...but before that I have to wake up myself.

So let me pen down for all of you something interesting. As many of you would be knowing that humans resemble quite a lot to the chimps. If any of you have not read it, there was an article very recently on this study. If you are still thinking the logic behind the title of my post, I should tell you that the credit goes entirely to that article. Here is a small piece of the article for you all
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"As our closest living evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves," said Robert Waterston, chair of the Department of Genome Sciences of the University of Washington School of Medicine. Waterston is a senior author of the study.
"We still do not have in our hands the answer to a most fundamental question: What makes us human? But this genomic comparison dramatically narrows the search for the key biological differences between the species."
The chimp and human genomes are very similar and encode very similar proteins. The DNA sequence that can be directly compared between the two genomes is almost 99 percent identical. When DNA insertions and deletions are taken into account, humans and chimps still share 96 percent of their sequence, the researchers found.
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Get up everyone and does anyone wants to try to answer the fundamental question by Waterston?? :-)

Excogitated by a_beautifulmind @ 4:49 AM