The time scale of the bottleneck?

[pevaquark (Matthew Pevarnik)]

@aarceng

Well I didn’t find it so I will assume you were mistaken.

@Bill_II Here is @RichardBuggs final post on the topic:

Human Chimp Genome Similarity

Dear all, Here is a final summary of my position. “How similar are the human and chimpanzee genomes?” is a relatively straightforward scientific question. We are hindered by the still somewhat incomplete nature of both the human and the chimpanzee reference genome assemblies, but we can make this clear in our assessments and allow for the uncertainties that it raises. The best way to assess the similarity of two genomes is to take complete genome assemblies of both species, that have been ass…

where he concludes:

I would accept 95% as a prediction, but not as a statement of established fact.

But the percent similarity is not really that useful and a nice summary from @DennisVenema:

Human Chimp Genome Similarity

The goal in attempting to reduce the % difference has always been an attempt to cast doubt on common ancestry. What I have noticed with YEC and anti-common descent ID is that there is seldom (if ever?) an attempt to make sense of the entire sweep of the data supporting common ancestry. We see attempts to diminish the % identity. We see attempts to show that a few rare pseudogenes have been exapted and now have a new function. We see aspersions cast on incomplete lineage sorting, and so on - bu…