Human are not Apes

All my life I have heard evolutionists say that humans are apes, and that we share 99% of our dna with chimps. It turns out to be more like 85%.

They get 99% when a chimp gene can be matched to a human gene, and then the nucleotides are 99% the same. But there are huge other chunks of dna that do not match, and if you look at the whole dna, there is much less similarity.

Jonathan Leaf argues in this video and this book (buy) that there are so many differences that humans should not even be considered primates.

A lot of species classifications are based on common descent, so perhaps that justifies calling humans primates and apes. But Leaf points out that a lot of ape research is based on a belief that we are apes, so learning more about chimps and gorillas will tell us more about humans.

The big differences, he says, are that humans use language, are social, and are domesticated. Chimps are wild animals that cannot be tamed.

Note that "homonid" was redefined to include apes:

The most commonly used recent definitions are:

Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors).

Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus). ...

The term ‘hominid’ used to have the same meaning that ‘hominin’ now has. ...

In this old scheme, humans were seen to be so different to other apes that we should be placed into our own distinct family, the Hominidae or hominids.

This change was to trick you into thinking that humans were apes.