(August 19, 2016 at 9:36 am)Alex K Wrote: Oh I see. I don't know whether that is true, but if I had to guess - it *might* make sense that maybe paternity tests deliberately use sequences which differ particularly strongly among the human gene pool in order to more clearly see family relations pop out. These samples then artificially overstate the differences between individuals, and so would return an falsely exaggerated distance in the relationship to chimps, if one used them naively for a comparison. But that's really just a guess, I don't know how paternity tests are done.
That seems like a reasonable hypothesis, and I appreciate the disclaimer that it is only a guess. It would be interesting to find out if the section tested, is just outside of the small percentage of DNA that is said to be nonsimilar in humans and chimps.
