First gorilla genome map offers clues to human evolution

•  The first complete gorilla genome has been mapped by scientists giving fresh insights into our own origins.
• We have decoded the Gorilla D.N.A. , which are the last of the genus of living great apes
• "The gorilla genome is important because it sheds light on the time when our ancestors diverged from our closest evolutionary cousins around six to 10 million years ago," says Aylwyn Scally, postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge and lead author of the report.
• A team of researchers examined more than 11,000 genes in humans, chimpanzees and gorillas, looking for evolutionary clues.
• It is shown that Gorilla D.N.A. is 15% closer to our D.N.A. then a chimpanzee
• Having the entire length of the gorilla genome now means scientists can start to compare all the four great apes at every position on the genome, Scally says.
• It could have been some climatic change that separated humans in the east of Africa from chimpanzees in the forest -- that's an idea some have floated. If we can see some imprint of it in the genome that would very, very useful information.
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