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'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig'
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| UPDATED: 05:49 EST, 30 November 2013
| DAMIEN GAYLE
Posted on 12/02/2013 7:33:22 AM PST by massmike
The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested.
The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the worlds leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.
He points out that while humans have many features in common with chimps, we also have a large number of distinguishing characteristics not found in any other primates.
Dr McCarthy says these divergent characteristics are most likely the result of a hybrid origin at some point far back in human evolutionary history.
What's more, he suggests, there is one animal that has all of the traits which distinguish humans from our primate cousins in the animal kingdom.
'What is this other animal that has all these traits?' he asks rhetorically. 'The answer is Sus scrofa, the ordinary pig.'
Dr McCarthy elaborates his astonishing hypothesis in an article on Macroevolution.net, a website he curates. He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis, but he presents compelling evidence to support it.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: atheism; evolution
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'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig': Extraordinary claim made by American geneticist
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:33:22 AM PST
by
massmike
To: massmike
That must have been some closing time.
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:34:45 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: massmike
This explains Debbie Wasserman-Schultz...
To: massmike
And here's proof...
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:35:24 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: massmike
I assume the pig was the father.
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:35:56 AM PST
by
Procyon
(Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
To: ObozoMustGo2012
I was expecting Michelle Obama to be the People’s First Choice,but I like your guess,too!
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:36:02 AM PST
by
massmike
(If I like my tagline,I can keep it! Obama said so..........)
To: massmike
Might explain why women sometimes refer to men as “pigs.”
Who knew.
To: massmike
super serial.....excelsior!
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:37:09 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: massmike
The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested. The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the worlds leading authorities on hybridisation in animals. When did bear DNA get introduced?
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:38:13 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: massmike
Kramer has a ride for it.
To: massmike
He's dead wrong and I've got the proof --
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:38:55 AM PST
by
massmike
(If I like my tagline,I can keep it! Obama said so..........)
To: massmike
Wait, didn’t some Mohammedan make this same claim about “Da Joos”?
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:39:10 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: massmike
HOGWASH!!!
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:39:54 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Wolfie
Yep you got it right I believe it was the other way around! Would be the first time some ape woke up to a pig in his bed!
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:39:54 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: massmike
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:40:06 AM PST
by
drpix
To: massmike
This is old news now. LOL
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:40:12 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
To: massmike
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:41:11 AM PST
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: ObozoMustGo2012
This explains Debbie Wasserman-Schwein
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:41:26 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: massmike
"Pigman baby pigman!"
To: Procyon
Setting aside the genetic incompatibilities (chromosome number and disparities in the matchup) how would this physical consummation actually take place? The anatomical differences alone make even the most imaginative configuration highly unlikely, if not altogether impossible.
There may, in fact, be a certain combination of genetic material between a high order of ape (not necessarily a chimpanzee) and some species of swine, but my contention is that it was done by an extraterrestrial visitor, a theory that seems to prevail at the studios of the creators of South Park.
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:43:20 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(The Internet, a most exquisite system by which to confound and muddle any reasonable dialogue.)
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