In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific
evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4 percent of our total DNA sequences
with the chimpanzees. This doesn’t mean, of course, that humans are direct
descendants from our tree-swinging friends, but it does emphasize that the
genius of our molecular code is supported by eons of nature’s greatest
evolutionary effort. Our human code was not a random act, at least not in its
entirety, but rather is better constructed as nature’s ever-evolving quest for
a body of genetic perfection.
As members of the same human species, you and I share all
but 0.01 percent (1/100th of 1 percent) of identical genetic
sequences. So biologically, as species, you and I are virtually identical to
one another at the level of genes (99.99 percent). Looking around at the
diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01 percent accounts for a
significant difference in how we look, think and behave. (‘My Stroke of Insight’, by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.)