As I am finishing this book, Science magazine is running a special issue about the sequencing of the macaque genome. It turns out that macaques share about 93 percent of their genes with us, humans. Previously it has been already reported that chimpanzees share about 96 percent of their genes with us. Yes, the macaque is our common ancestor, and it might be expected that, together with the chimps, we continued with our natural selection some 23 million years ago until, some 6 million years ago, we departed from the chimps to continue our further search for better adaptation. Actually it was not quite like this. Apparently.
