It is now early on a Saturday and my cleansing of my mind has begun….AH!  It is almost orgasmic!

And yes….more sciencey stuff!

For years I have been trying to explain the knuckle dragger in both parties.  I have asked many times if anyone could explain what it is that leads these types to do and say the idiotic stuff that they become famous for…..and so far …there has been no good answer just a wealth of opinions and insults.  But I do believe that the answer has been found…….

(Newser) – In decoding the DNA of a western lowland gorilla, scientists made a discovery that may surprise you: Humans and gorillas differ in just 1.75% of their DNA, making our genomes more similar than previously thought. That percentage actually drops to 1.37% when compared to chimpanzees, our closest living relatives—but 15% of the time, gorilla DNA is actually more like human DNA than chimp DNA is, the Los Angeles Times reports. That “tells us that there are individual genes for which, if you want to find the closest sequence to humans, you won’t necessarily look at chimpanzees. In a few cases, you’ll look at gorillas,” says a geneticist.

It took a 60-strong team five years to sequence the 20,962 genes, which belong to Kamilah, a 34-year-old gorilla at the San Diego Zoo. Other lessons learned: Gorillas became a separate species 10 million years ago, about 4 million years before humans split off from chimps—a finding that jibes with fossil evidence, but stands in contrast to previous genetic evidence, which had indicated a more recent separation. “That’s significant,” says an anthropologist. “There’s an argument about early hominids—are they really our ancestors? This helps settle that. It shows it’s possible.”

Whatcha think?