Quote Originally Posted by Jesus of Suburbia View Post
When people say "we're 99% identical to chimps" or in the case of pigs I believe it's 70%-80% because I have heard the figure before, it doesn't tell us anything at all about evolutionary relation. We may have the same genes, but how and how much those genes show is wildly different between different animals. Have you noticed that most mammals have four limbs and a tail? That's an example of having a lot of the same genes.
Yeah, indicating that we probably have a common ancestor. You can look at the limbs of any tetrapod and see similarities.