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Conflating percentages
June 17, 2007
by RPM (not verified),
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The percentages you are speaking of are different. >95% of the genome does not encode proteins. Humans are identical at >95% of nucleotides (depending on how you deal with duplications). The majority of sequence identity between humans is due to common descent, not functional constraint. To identify functional constraint, you must look at more diverged taxa.