[connectthedots]

And you can name which primates that have the same number of chromosomes as humans? That would only be a start.

Can you name even one animal that has successfully produced an offspring by mating with another species with a different number of chromosomes?

[Coyoteman]

And you can name which primates that have the same number of chromosomes as humans? That would only be a start.

Can you name even one animal that has successfully produced an offspring by mating with another species with a different number of chromosomes?

Check with one of the other folks. I like bones, not chromosomes.

Can I interest you in this?

In 1995, Meave Leakey, the wife of Richard Leakey, began discovering bones of a very early australopithecine species at several sites southwest of Lake Turkana. She named it Australopithecus anamensis ("anam" is "lake" in the Turkana language). The dentition of this hominid seems to be transitional between apes and later australopithecines. This fits with the 4.2-3.9 million year dates for the volcanic ash associated with the anamensis fossils.

http://anthro.palomar.edu/hominid/australo_1.htm

[From many - one.]

Why should a another primate have the same number of chromosoomes as humans?

Although there are animals that have successfully mated (meaning they have prodused viable, if not fertile, offspring) with other with a diffrent umber of chromosomes, what difference does it make?

[Right Wing Professor]

Can you name even one animal that has successfully produced an offspring by mating with another species with a different number of chromosomes?`

Horses and donkeys. And very occasionally mules are even fertile.

[b_sharp]

"And you can name which primates that have the same number of chromosomes as humans? That would only be a start.

The number of human chromosomes is one less than the chimp's because we've had two fuse together where chimps have not.

Chromosome fusion verified

Pictures of fused chromosome