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Chimp and Human Gut Bacteria Nearly Identical
• LiveScienceHumans share about 99 percent of our genomes with chimpanzees. Now, research finds we share something else: gut bacteria.
The bacterial colonies that populate the chimpanzee intestinal tract are mirror images of those found in the human gut, researchers report today (Nov. 13) in the journal Nature Communications. The findings suggest gut bacteria patterns evolved before chimps and humans split and went their evolutionarily separate ways.