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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Both pigs and chimps are mammals. So are humans. If you believe in evolution, at some point they all probably had a common ancestor and therefor some common DNA.
Not the other way around that a chimp and a pig mated and produced offspring.
If this was so, then pigs porking chimps would make fertile humans, EVERY TIME.
No no no...It’s just the Joooozzzz who are “descended from apes and pigs”
This guy must be supplementing his scientific readings with the “holy” koran. lol.
ooops...you beat me to it.
Was watching a show that presented the theory, and a thing that stuck with me is how that took a troop of chimps that lived by the water, and started out dropping off a lot of food near the water. Old chimps would wipe the fruit clean of sand, and keep their distance from the water. Younger chimps figured out pretty quick that the lake did a more efficient job of cleaning food, and weren't adverse to going into the water. In less than a generation you had chimps hooting and hollering as they were jumping off cliffs into the water. I know that's no genetic change, but it sure showed a propensity to go aqua.
Yup and the fact that so many of the human adaptations are either re-used “aqua genes” or genes that had to come back because of semi0-aquatic adaptation...
Subcutenous fat, minimised body hair, shape of nose, swimming instinct in infants not seen in chimps, infants covered in fat, etc etc....
This guy must be supplementing his scientific readings with the holy koran. lol.
Maybe he is a recent convert....
Even if we are supposedly the offspring of pigs and chimps.. then shouldn’t we all appreciate the pigs more.... Appreciate that they are tasty meat candy than should be eaten in bacon form or BBQ form....
Mmmmmmmm
Muzzies are afraid of pork, that it will negate their entrance to paradise.
I have an idea:
Let’s strafe ‘em with TRAFE!
(From orbit, just to be sure!)
Well, that would certainly explain a lot.
Does anyone have a picture of his wife?
Jus' a good ol' boy.....
Spent too much time in the barn, I'm thinkin'....
Chimps :48 pairs of chromosomes...pigs: 19 pairs.
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