I find it increasingly interesting how in recent times more and more of the traits which we thought seperated us from animals are actually being found within animals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6387611.stm
wow, that's a lot different than using twigs to catch ants.
was just reading in the Genome book that apes, chimps, monkeys have 24 chromosomes, and we have 23, however, #2 is a fusion of two chromosomes with evidence of a band showing where the two are joined.
Genetically we're supposed to be pretty close.