LEFT-leaning cartoonists delight in parading George Bush as a simpleton chimp in presidential clothing. Their mistake, it now seems, may be in singling him out for such satire. According to the latest analysis of our DNA, we are all, in the words of the scientists behind the study, “slightly remodelled chimpanzee-like apes” (see “People and chimps belong together on the family tree”). In fact, say the researchers, chimps and bonobos are so very nearly identical to us at the level of DNA that they should be reclassified as belonging to the same happy taxonomical first family.
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