BERLIN (AFP) ??” Chimps and humans differ by dint of only a tiny percentage in their genetic make-up.

BERLIN (AFP) ??” Chimps and humans differ by dint of only a tiny percentage in their genetic make-up, moreover the reason why they're in tree and we're not lies in who has the greatest in quantity active genes, a leading scientist said.

Svante Paabo, who has been helping to decipher the genetic collection of laws of chimps, said the solution lies in the degree to which gene are used in each species.

Human and chimpanzee genomes differ by the agency of just 1.2 percent, he told the annual meeting in Berlin of the Human Genome Organisation.

even now around 10 percent of the gene are differently active, said Paabo, who studies at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, eastern Germany.

Among humans, the gene responsible for our faculty of perception of smell ...