yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Next time you are troubled by one of your fellow travelers in this absurdity we call life, consider this: You share 99.9% (sources vary from 99.6 to 99.9%) of your DNA with every other Homo sapiens on this planet. What a big deal, positive and negative, we make of that 0.1%. That amount of difference is just a little more than a standard size shot glass in a 15.5 gallon keg of beer. It is one McDonald’s cheeseburger among a pile of 1000 similar sandwiches.
And just in case you are feeling smug… While we are not direct descendants of apes, chimpanzee, and bonobos, we do share a common ancestor with them. As such we share 98.8% of our DNA with them. That is a difference of 16 shot glasses in our keg of beer, or 12 cheeseburgers in your pile of 1000 such sandwiches.
So by and by when next you look deeply into my sorrowful, wistful simian eyes… remember that.
And so it goes.
Amazing