No big surprise here. We are animals, no more and no less. I am not the least bit surprised that our DNA is so similar to that of chimps. They are so highly intelligent and social, they seem like mini humans to me.
I'm a meat eater though, and I do get queasy when I'm forced to consider the similarity from that standpoint. It's so easy to compartmentalize, to entirely insulate myself from the fact that I'm eating an animal because food is so neat and tidily packed. I've dabbled in vegetarianism, feeling it's barbaric to eat animals. But then I don't feel well; I get tired and hungry. Soy is not something I'm interested in, so it's hard to get protein. Anyway, I'm a meat eater for now, but feeling more like a cannibal armed with this info. (Of course I've never eaten a chimp).
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