We can make an even more stunning deduction. For certain genes, you must be more closely related to some chimpanzees than to some humans. And I am closer to some chimpanzees than to you (or to ‘your’ chimpanzees). Humans as a species, as well as humans as individuals, are temporary vessels containing a mix of genes from different sources. Individuals are temporary meeting points on the crisscrossing routes that genes take through history.
