1% with Neil deGrasse Tyson

[ilovejapanesepeople]

I don't look at other animals as drooling blithering idiots. In fact, I quite enjoy their company.

[perezthuglife]

~FunnyJunk brought me here :D

[dudelikesWoW]

NdGT + deadmau5 = favourited

[jechet10]

Didnt this guy play the Barman on that old show, 'The Love ship'?

[bandoflyrics]

This guy should do a Ted Talks.

[Syndog71]

Tyson leverages the very miniscule-sounding "1%" in his answer, but when you consider how the human genome consists of an estimated *three billion* base pairs to encode our genetic data, 1% is quite a bit of information that separates mankind from chimpanzees. By comparison, consider what it would mean to be a 1% shareholder in a company boasting a three billion dollar profit margin. (For the mathematically-challenged, your share would be a whopping thirty million dollars.)

[MistahFAY324]

Strobe, by deadmau5.

I can't imagine a better song.

[Omnywrench]

Insert inevitable "I am the 99%" joke here

[Lmfaorofl17]

1% = Dr. Sheldon Cooper

[OMIGHTYGUY]

1% more than human? I'll just say Time Lord and go on my way...

[Duragon910]

Strobe beat, y u no drop?

[tvboy223]

@Duragon910 Because it isn't dubstep.

[miniemor]

Never have I thought of the possibilities combining Neil deGrasse Tyson and Deadmau5.

[maheshwariaditi]

Neil deGrasse Tyson has obviously never heard of epigenetics.

[Pigboy501]

deadmau5...?

[DeadlyDad]

1%? Sounds legit.

...if you are interested in proven *facts*, though, it is *significantly* higher. Credible source in 3...2...1...

refdag. nl/ chimpanzee_1_282611

[DeadlyDad]

(I forgot to mention that you will need to remove the spaces in the URL. Sorry.)

[superstrok99]

#occupythegalaxy 

[AndySan]

Only 1% different? Watch out guys, we got over 7 billion badasses over here!

[hellokittymurder26]

Memebase took me here :D

[dudugdugdugdugdugdug]

Neil deGrasse Tyson for PRESIDENT 2012 - Infinity.

[strebr0]

This video really is something to think about, and I think what has helped humanity accomplish such great feats is our ability to teach each other. That, along with prehensility, has allowed us to achieve and build upon these achievements. I still couldn't help chuckling at the misspelling of "identical" at the beginning, though.

[sidelingscroll]

Ah ha, that's god's plan. To make it only *look* like the earth is 4.6 billion years old, and to make it look like we all had common ancestry. That explains why there are so many deadly diseases we aren't immune to... he was too busy covering up his creation!

Isn't his design wonderful?

[N00bizme]

@sidelingscroll obvious troll is obvious.

[DeadlyDad]

@sidelingscroll It's okay, buddy. You obviously aren't the first person to misunderstand that the events shown in a six day long documentary didn't necessarily happen in real time.

[jakeandsammi]

For all you YouTube junkies. Our similarities to chimps is actually much lower, about 74%. 1% is a HUGE bias.

[2RayneR7]

What if that 1% between us and them is in another direction ;)

[FIGHTTHECABLE]

We are the 1%!

Now i understand the occupy movement!

[alli83095]

Yes, but we also share 99% DNA with mice. I don't understand why our similarities with animals are considered as proof against creation. If God came up with a good plan for creating things, why would he scratch all of it and start all over again with each new animal?

[0TylerDurden0]

@alli83095 Because (what if) there is no God to begin with. Then you wouldn't have to ask a paradoxical question.

[vladbcom]

sooo well said!!

[MageAtYou]

Great use of Strobe

[CzechAvailabilitie]

Chimps are strong enough to literally rip a person limb from limb with their bare hands and would not hesitate to do so if angered, scared or just a bit grumpy.

My point is:

Chimps are scary, don't anger chimps.

[eduncho]

My dream is to speed up time to million of years a second and observe evolution...

[tvanderh42]

I love Neil deGrasse Tyson, he is this generations Carl Sagan. If the world had more people like him who knows where we would be. Keep it up Neil, and keep spreading wonderful knowledge.

[FooledToaster]

People are missing the point. I'm sure he's aware that what he is saying is not -exactly- scientifically sound. The point is to get the layman Joe "Football Beer & Tits" Smith to think outside the box and question his place in the universe. Don't doubt for a second that NDT could out science all of us without batting an eye, but he doesn't, which is why I love him so much. Just like Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku, he makes science that would otherwise be out of our grasp interesting and amazing.

[MATTHEWisBEASTLY]

@Fourzerotw0 mad bro?

[thebatcopter]

It sounds like I'm being lectured by Penn Jillette.

[milesgti]

Those percentages are arbitrary.

[theforsakenshadow]

@milesgti So are facts if you put it like that.

[aTuWitty]

Obviously we're not as smart as we think we are if we can't spell "Identical" correctly.

[77thebob77]

@aTuWitty huhuhu good one

[theB0ogeyman]

These are kinda just sweeping generalities. WHAT IF THERE ARE SMARTER HUMANS THAN US?! vaguely interesting tho.

[TheNubbbler]

Neil deGrasse Tyson, my hero.

[wackfree]

as humans we do get arrogant... stay humble and wise

[ovariesniper]

To clear this up he was answering the question a student in attendance asked which was " do you believe in extraterrestrial life?" Than he goes on saying what you just saw in this video, and also said "we as humans, you dont see us stopping and start talking to worms, or squirrels; other than being odd we dont because we know we wont get nothing out of it." so if another being was 1% smarter than us, why would they even consider stopping by and talking to us since they are smarter than us?

[MrValdosius]

@ovariesniper mate it says 1% different from us in + meaning of DNA not 1% smarter it's two different things.. But i kinda agree with last sentence(second part) what can you learn from your teacher when you are smarter then him..

[theyasin33]

@ovariesniper that is rather a stupid thing to say

[IIkingdomII]

in a room of 1000 people, the difference between the dumbest person and the smartest person is equal to the difference between the average chimp and the average human. in other words, 4 standard deviations.

[iridial3]

Only 1% of human DNA is cDNA. So saying human DNA is 99% similar with chimp DNA is a redundant statistic, because it is the cDNA values that matter. The majority of homology occurs in LTRs, satellite DNA etc. that sometimes carry the label "junk DNA". While we do share a lot of cDNA homology with chimps it is nowhere near 99%, and alternative splicing and other post transcriptional changes to the RNA transcript also have a huge effect on the structure of the protein produced by the gene.

[asimsinthehouse]

Dat Deadmau5

[Heycool08]

we should publish a book of just youtube comments and it will be the most enlightened document since the bible.

[TheMainalt]

So 1% is insignificant when comparing us to monkeys, but SUPER significant when comparing us to a hypothetical species. Whatever, I'm gonna go play video games on my Xbox while watching movies on my computer.

[WTBFood]

I wonder if the chimp could spell identical right?

[telum12]

source?

[jrowla15]

@telum12 I don't have the link but this happened on an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.

[roscoenick]

It's also in transmitted cultural heritage bro, not just dna

[rhunter58]

@Fourzerotw0 ...Wait...seriously? Calm down before you get a stroke.

[KaiWolfPaquin]

We share 2% of our DNA with bananas and I can strongly state, that that 98% difference does not always make us smarter.

[ShadowSaeo]

Look how mad people get when you question their intelligence.. Open your minds people, it's not a personal attack, it is not stating that you are not smarter than a chimp.. it is just throwing the idea out there that you should have already conceived in your own brain if you actually were intelligent.. 

[Slade671]

STOP YELLING NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON! NO ONE LIKES PEOPLE WHO YELL!

[BLONKism]

fuck you im smart.

[Kadda67]

so what?

maybe this, maybe that,

maybe I can imagine that if I stick a banana in my ass and scream kawabonga it will eventually propulse me into space. This is high level pseudo-philosophy.

[killum66]

Just get high and watch this video again. It will blow your mind.

[mlaskdnlasknd]

Get of the drugs and learn about alleles. To put it simple, the gene-types may be the same in nearly 99% of the cases, but the differences in gene-variants are much higher.

Example in humans: Eyes - same gene gives all eye colors, but different alleles give blue-green-brown and all in between. The same goes for blood types. My self have b+, my fiancee has A-. Same gene, different allele.

The difference between a chimpanzee and a human is thus much greater than 1%.

Wikipedia is your friend.

[StOnion]

NDT AND Deadmau5? Favorited

[drakosfire1985]

@Caldaron set goals too high to reach them, damn you are so right, next they will set some crazy goal like understanding why Apollo crosses the sky or launching a bullet into Artemis

[MrDrhugh]

Indentical? In the very first line, I think you meant identical

[Caldaron]

maybe the 1% difference is that the chimpanzee learned how to properly treat his environment, be part of the world and chill the fuck out because he's got little but everything he needs to be happy...

so we are just smarter because we think we need a big deal to be happy, like fucking heaven on earth, money, women, whatever but that's just an utopic dream made up in this 1% called the drive for more, the search for peace when we can't find it because we've set our goals too high to reach them

[autiger2386]

@Caldaron Not exactly the point of the video, but still astute nonetheless.

[suckaforstraws123]

Why is deadmau5 playing in the background?

[MeemeeeXX]

Sorry Neil, these comparisons of human, ape or pig DNA are very popular, but absolutely useless. Only ONE slight difference in your genes/alleles can cause genetic deseases which make you dumb or even unlivable. One difference with such an effect. So a difference of one percent (one always sounds so small, i know) can cause an tremendous difference between apes and humans.

I dare to contradict Neil? Okay, let the downvote begin ;-)

[GLeonGarcia]

We are the on only species responsable of destroying the planet we live in, I would say we are the dumbest one

[maniac708]

I'm not the smartest person, but I know I was created different than a monkey and I was made to be much smarter and more creative than them.

[StarshipPoopers1]

@maniac708 Stating that you were 'created' and 'made' diminishes the credibility of your statement about intelligence.

[jimo2006]

@StarshipPoopers1and how so? Was not everything that exists created or made in some fashion? I dont see how that statement diminishes anything!

[raph882]

i'm not the only one who hear Strobe (original) by Deadmau5, didn't I?

[Taicort]

@raph882 you are not :D

[Fourzerotw0]

@raph882 NO SHIT FAGGOT, IT'S THE BACKGROUND MUSIC. MY GOD YOU'RE A FUCKING FAGGOT. SERIOUSLY YOU'RE JUST ASKING FOR THUMBS UPS BECAUSE YOU'RE A FAGGOT.

HURR DURR I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO'S WATCHING THIS ON YOUTUBE, AM I?

ALSO LEARN TO SPELL.

GOD DAMN IT FUCK YOUR SELF ASSHOLE FUCK YOU

[Epsssssss]

@Fourzerotw0 This exactly.

[raph882]

@Fourzerotw0 you talk to a guy how's not even english (i'm french) so yes i can have little probleme in ''spelling''. ho and i'm not asking for thumbs up, i just mention a fact. and if you wanna be so unpleasant you can just not comment. see ya.

[The91302]

@Fourzerotw0 you play cod don't you

[AceOfSpadesX]

@raph882 not likely since it is the song that's playing

[jakeandsammi]

Here is an analysis article about where the biased 1% difference came from. Our similarities is lower. Since YouTube won't allow web addresses imbedded into comments, substitute the actual typing key for the word listed in the spelled out web address below. Happy reading!

answersingenesis(dot)org(forwa­rd slash)articles(forward slash)arj(forward slash)v4(forward slash)n1(forward slash)blastin

[AdamBMorris]

We are all the 1%

[templeorder]

Ok, while i acknowledge that 1% has given us some significant advantages, evolution does not work that way. Truly its impossible to say either way, so i wont bash this as some have. Many species are constantly presented with those same opportunities and have failed... so there is something very unique about us. What that is... I dont think we understand quite yet.

[Shadowstar204]

Evolution is not a line with an end goal! Put a human in a savannah and s/he wouldn’t fare well, likewise put a chimp into New York, and it wouldn’t fare well. Evolution is more akin to a tree or bush branching out from a common ancestor. If you are looking for a control group for intelligence look at the octopus. EPIC FAIL!!

[Shadowstar204]

Chimps are actually ‘smarter’ than humans. Human’s strength is in their record keeping and accumulated knowledge. There is no 1% “direction”. Neil deGrasse Tyson is astro-physicist; he is clearly NOT a biological anthropologist, if he was and tried to use such misleading language, he would have his ass handed to him by undergraduates! Either that quote is way out of context, or it is by far his most stupid comment and deserves a swift rebuttal.

[d3st88]

@Shadowstar204

Your reasoning fails.

First of all, Chimps are not smarter than humans. There are certain intellectual tasks chimps are magnificantly much better than humans, but that's all.

Secondly, that record keeping thing, or extrasomal knowledge -as real undergraduates would call it- is due to that ~1% difference.

Bazinga.

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 Among the apes, the humans have the least amount of genetic variation. You could wipe out all human life except half of Africa and still have over 80% of all human genetic variability maintained. Intelligence is not genetic! Chimps are genetically more diverse than humans. If intelligence were genetic, there would be chimps around hundreds of times smarter than Einstein from the sheer diversity of their gene pool.

Bazinga

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 The 1% allow for some gross phonotypical changes such as position of thumbs to allow for fine motor coordination such as using screwdrivers, other apes have the opposable thumb too low, they only have a power grip and that’s it. Human’s larynx drops about a year after birth allowing our complex language to be vocalized and practiced to the degree that words become useful. We have childhood which fosters socialization and more complex culture.

Bazinga

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 Other creatures go from infants straight to juveniles; I’d recommend ‘The Evolution of Childhood’ by Melvin Konner which covers more ground about that. Intelligence appears to be brain to body ratio, which humans do have a better deal on, however we traded jaw power for that. And at a time without fire and stone tools, it was an expensive and risky trade-off.

Bazinga

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 The difference is cultural, but based from adapting to different stresses from ape stresses due to our differences in biology. For the context of chimp’s lifestyle, they’re as adapted and evolved as we are. Probably more, now that we are no longer foragers but sedentary post-industrialists. Once in human history it was beneficial to have the fat-insulin receptor (thrifty) gene, but now it underlies the epidemic of obesity.

Bazinga

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 I define intelligence as “the capacity to overcome problems”; human instruments of intelligence appear to be logical reasoning, pattern recognition, emotions to prioritize decisions, and a brute stack of accumulated information. I believe there is a solution to any problem with enough intelligence, move a small notch upwards in levels of intelligence then what was once impossible becomes likely, if you move a significant step upwards, then what was impossible becomes obvious.

Bazinga

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 If I get into an argument with Neil deGrasse Tyson on quantum mechanics, there’s a good chance he’ll win the argument. If however, he comes into my field of hominid evolution, there’s a good chance I will win, it all boils down to what field of understanding one chooses to practice in. Evolution is not about survival; it is about adapting to stress and diversifying, sometimes increasing complexity.

Bazinga

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 What I found misleading about this video is it fosters the idea that man came from ape, opposed to tons of evidence suggesting man and ape came from a common ancestor. Imagine how upset a physicist would be if he found a video suggesting the Earth was flat. Over 99% of all life that has been on Earth is now extinct, evolution has its cards in quantity over quality, you can’t beat arithmetic, & there is always the probability that something will endure.

Bazinga

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88 Read The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells. Also provide a citation for ”extrasomal knowledge -… is due to that ~1% difference”. As in all scientific writing, the source must be peer reviewed, accurate, reliable, precise, & valid. I’m working on 2 degrees @ The university of Alabama, & I’m not a common undergraduate. I’ll email you a couple hundred citations of my own you can check up on, if you’re interested.

Bazinga!

[Shadowstar204]

@d3st88

Getting your first undergraduate degree? Take this hint, you can be as smart as you want, but if you cannot communicate, cite, and deliver - it’s worthless. And here’s another, “Bazinga” is redundant, and a little childish. Have you figured that out yet?

[SecularMentat]

Well done.

[illumined1]

From such simple beginnings such incredible life has been, and is being evolved. From such simple fundamental building blocks springs forth what simply follows.

[JakeDayWilliams]

Awesome!!



[TheBigKiller]

Amazing! May I have your permission to use this animation in a lecture I will be doing?

[chicksdigthelongdisc]

I was listening to Strobe by Deadmau5 (song at the start) when I clicked this and it freaked me the fuck out.

[sharpezor]

I like the zeitgeist vibe, that tone is almost spiritual. It means profound truth. Interesting how a sound can bring that thought to mind.

[googleman12345]

_____ Indentical.

Beautiful video, though.