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To the question of whether sharing 96 percent of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50 percent of our DNA with bananas — that does not make us half bananas!

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Source: Reported without source in Joan Borysenko, The Plantplus Diet Solution: Personalized Nutrition for Life (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2014), p. 107
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