Interspecies Sex Probably Occurred Between Humans, Chimps

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[NativeNewYorker]

May 17 (UPI) -- Humans and chimpanzees may have interbred millions of years ago after the two species initially separated, according to a study published in Nature.

If hybridization -- creating a new form of plant or animal life by combining two species -- did occur between humans and chimpanzees, ``one might need to modify the evolution displays in museums,'' Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor David Reich wrote in an e-mail message.

The study, ``Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees,'' says the X chromosome is much younger than previously thought and may mean that after human and chimpanzee lineages initially diverged 10 million years ago, the species interchanged genes at some later point, as recently as 5.4 million years ago.

``This raises more questions than it answers,'' Reich, the senior author of the study, said in an interview. ``It opens up lots of questions that weren't questions beforehand.''

The Toumai hominid fossil, estimated to be 6.5 million to 7.4 million years old, is the earliest-known record of the human family, according to a 2002 Nature article. The new molecular genetic study indicates the fossil, with features distinctive to the human lineage, is either younger than previously thought or existed before the final exchange of genes, Reich said.

Reich and other researchers from Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology examined genetic sequencing from humans and four other primates including gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and macaques to determine what areas matched up and what areas differed. They found the X chromosome was far younger than the other non-sex chromosomes by about 6 million years.

``Perhaps one would need to draw a loop in that ancestral tree at the time of speciation,'' Reich said.

While scientists have long theorized that some parts of the human genome are ``older'' than others, in that they trace back to different points in our common ancestry, this study is the first to measure the range of ages, according to a press release that accompanied it.

``The young age of chromosome X is an evolutionary `smoking gun,''' Eric Lander, co-author of the Nature paper and director of the Broad Institute, said in the statement.

[camle]

horny little @#$#$! ain't they?

[Ben Mugged]

I wondered where Al Gore came from......

[martin_fierro]

Humans and chimpanzees may have interbred millions of years ago after the two species initially separated, according to a study published in Nature.

Naaah. Too easy.

[E Rocc]

Well this explains the origin of hippies.

-Eric

[Maceman]

It killed in the ratings on prehistoric HBO.

[cryptical]

I never slept with a chick *that* hairy.

[martin_fierro]

[GraniteStateConservative]

Well, sure, if they're hot.

[gunnyg]

I have always thought that that had to be the only explanation for the things I have seen that would be otherwise go unexplained.

[martin_fierro]

Somebody always has to take this genetic genealogy thing toooo far.

[mlc9852]

Apparently some scientists have too much time on their hands.

[Fighting Irish]

[Antique Gal]

Now I know where Democrats came from !!!

[Red Badger]

That would account for a good portion of DU posters.....

[JamesP81]

Oh no, the disgusting jokes this thread is about to generate boggles the mind.

[Obadiah]

Translation: There are so many laughable gaps in the evolution farce that maybe people will buy this howler. What a joke. Nice try. Next.

[vetvetdoug]

This explains Dennis Rodman and Madonna.

[Slings and Arrows]

Well, that's Patrick Kennedy explained.

[Obadiah]

Good one.

[Herakles]

"I wondered where Al Gore came from"

Obviously from the time the homo sapiens mated with jackasses which explains the party affiliation and the lack of intelligence needed to be a liberal.

This can be confirmed without DNA analysis!

[pissant]

It did. How else can you explain the existence of democrats.

[KarlInOhio]

She forced me to at gun point.

[martin_fierro]

"Hey, man -- DON'T JUDGE ME!"

Cinders the chimp, St. Louis zoo

[Doogle]

remaining civil...I'll past



Doogle

[SerpentDove]

[RichInOC]

Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be.
One said to the other,"Listen here, you two.
I just heard a rumor that CAN'T be true."

"That man descended from our noble race!
The very idea is a big disgrace.
No monkey ever cheated his wife,
Starved her baby, and ruined her life."

Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!

"You'll never see a mother monk
Leave her child with others to bunk.
Passing him off from one to the other,
Till the poor child sca'cely knows his mother."

Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!

"And here's another thing you'll never see -
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree.
Letting good coconuts go to waste
While forbidding all others to come and taste.
Why, if I built a fence around a tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me."

Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!

"And here's one more thing a monkey won't do -
Go out at night and get on a stew.
Or use a gun, or club, or knife
To take another monkey's life.
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum.
But brothers, from us HE DID NOT COME."

Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!

--Dave Bartholomew

[rightinthemiddle]

"This should be good for a laugh thread" ping.

[jacquej]

I was thinking David Gregory is proof of the theory!

[skinkinthegrass]

Well, I'll be a Monkey's Uncle Ping. :D
...someone had to say it.

[RHINO369]

This article is slightly misleading. What they call humans weren't the same species as current humans. They were an early species of humanoids. So its like a half monkey, and a monkey having sex.

[MJemison]

Naaah. Too easy.

Glad someone else thinks so. Every time I see that guy I think of Tarzan & Cheeta.

[oldfart]

Janet Reno? Naaah! Even the ugliest monkey looks better than that.

[Malesherbes]

This explains a lot.

[js1138]

Lets not try to be rational on this thread. OK?

[OB1kNOb]

[dead]

I'm too sexy for my shirt.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Okay people, let's think about this. Which would YOU rather sleep with?

or

[Savage Beast]

When you think about it it makes sense. There are lots of "humans" around who seem more like chimps than the rest of us. The Democrat Freadshow comes immediately to mind.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

What is it they say about great minds? LOL

[Tenniel]

Along the same lines, back in 1930 John Collier wrote a nifty little novel about the adventures of a chimp named Emily who travels from Africa to London with an English schoolteacher.

It's called His Monkey Wife: Or, Married to a Chimp, and it's a small treasure.

[Fractal Trader]

GGG!?

[Billthedrill]

"Put your hands on me, you damn dirty ape!"

[hosepipe]

[ Humans and chimpanzees may have interbred millions of years ago after the two species initially separated, ]

Overheard in a conversation between two "Evos" after consuming a large amount of grass..

[RaceBannon]

Oh, please, all this is, is another evolution fantasy designed to come up with still another theory to fill in the lack of logical gaps that the false religion of evolution is...

[mt tom]

that looks like the ultimate flasher

[talleyman]

Hence the term "Gorilla my dreams"...
(They made a movie about it: "Apes of Wrath.")

[skinkinthegrass]

HA! LOL! ...Somehow, .I knew a morped Helen Thomas Pic. would show up on this thread. :^D