To drive home the message of similarity between humans and cows, and urge all states to ban cow slaughter, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said: Cows and humans share 80% of the same genes. So there is not much difference between us.”
Cows and humans do indeed share 80% of their DNA, the building block of all life on earth, according to this 2009 study in the journal Science. But humans are genetically closer to a host of species than they are to cows, including cats, dogs, horses, and our closest relatives, apes.
Humans are genetically closest to chimpanzees and bonobos–a smaller relative of chimps–sharing almost 99% of genes, as Science reported in 2012. Gorillas are next with 98% of genes similar to humans.
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