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More evidence of common descent – Humans and Chimps Share Genetic Strategy in Battle Against Pathogens

As if any was needed.

Science Daily – Feb. 14, 2013 — A genome-wide analysis searching for evidence of long-lived balancing selection — where the evolutionary process acts not to select the single best adaptation but to maintain genetic variation in a population — has uncovered at least six regions of the genome where humans and chimpanzees share the same combination of genetic variants.