[Binghamton_native]

Let's see. If I can count right, if apes have 48 chromosomes, and 2 of theirs linked together in humans, that would leave humans with 47 instead of 46. Did you mean to say that 3 of theirs linked together into one of ours?

[Stultis]

Let's see. If I can count right, if apes have 48 chromosomes, and 2 of theirs linked together in humans, that would leave humans with 47 instead of 46.

The chromosomes come in pairs. 46 is the diploid or 2N number for humans (the number of chromosomes in somatic or body cells) and 23 is the haploid or 1N number (the number of chromosomes in eggs and sperm). The 2N number won't be odd. The fusion was of two of the 1N chromosomes. I posted on this chromosome fusion in the following messages from the "Evolution was, and is, a great notion" thread: #472, #479 and #532.