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What is the closest living relative to a human?
The Chimpanzee, which has a genome almost 99 percent identical with the human genome. There are two extant species: Pan troglodytes, the Common Chimpanzee, living in West and Central Africa, and its cousin, the Bonobo or Pan paniscus, found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For more information see the Wikipedia entry: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee] David Morrison
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