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If Humans are animals then why don't humans produce dander like cats and dogs and rats do?

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Humans are animals.

While the genetic difference between individual humans today is minuscule – about 0.1%, on average – study of the same aspects of the chimpanzee genome indicates a difference of about 1.2%. The bonobo (Pan paniscus), which is the close cousin of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), differs from humans to the same degree. The DNA difference with gorillas, another of the African apes, is about 1.6%. Most importantly, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans all show this same amount of difference from gorillas. A difference of 3.1% distinguishes us and the African apes from the Asian great ape, the orangutan. How do the monkeys stack up? All of the great apes and humans differ from rhesus monkeys, for example, by about 7% in their DNA.
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics
Victorian · 56-60, F
@ElwoodBlues Humans don't shed dander
@Victorian If that is true then please explain the difference between 'dandruff' and 'dander.'

What about the other hairless mammals? Do elephants, hippos, or pigs shed dander? If not, are they not animals??
Carla · 61-69, F
@Victorian if you havent animals, the dust you wipe off your coffee table is in no small part, your skin cells. If you do have animals, then more skin cells.
Where do you think your dead skin goes? Heaven?
Tennessean · 31-35, F
@Victorian yes they do, dogs and cats can be allergic to human dander
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