Posted on 01/17/2007 9:58:32 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
Pigman, coming to a lab near you soon! Oh, wait, Bill Clinton already has the patent on that.
one gorilla of a ping
Mythology is filled with chimera. One can't help but wonder if we've been down this road before. How much physical evidence of a technological civilization would survive an ice age? Would some tales of old survive as a dim distorted oral history?
Everyone has heard or even personally known beasts in human shape and humanzees. Nothing new here, move along.
The idea that humans and chimps interbred causes discomfort in some circles...particularly among those who hesitate to visit a topic like this, for fear there will be a picture of Helen Thomas...
"My family tree really does go back a long way..."
In May, scientists at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, released a study comparing human and other primate genomes with more intense scrutiny than ever before, down to the letters of each base pair. The striking similarities between humans and chimpanzees, especially on the sex-determining X chromosome, led the scientists to a pair of astounding conclusions. First of all, chimps and humans likely diverged from the same evolutionary tree less than 6.3 million years ago, more recently than previously thought. Secondly, the break might not have been a clean one: Early humans and chimps quite possibly interbred for a period of about 4 million years before they split for good. This type of on-again, off-again speciation had formerly been documented in plants and other animals, but never in humans.Fascinating claim, considering humans have 23 chromosome pairs and chimps have 24 (as do gorillas, gibbons, and orangutans).
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The great science fiction author pseudonymously known as Cordwainer Smith argued eloquently in favor of the generation of chimeras.
Progressive's despair about the current extinction event will almost certainly be remedied by human creativity. And after all, as we are informed in Genesis, humanity is charged with the Divine right to dominion over the Planet.
Throwing raw meat to tigers, I now stand back to see if anyone takes the bait...or even understands the implications.
too late, islam beat us to it!
Graincollections: Humans' Natural Ecological Niche -- A Review by Roger W. Wescott
Sergio Treviño is an independent-minded scholar who has made use of two troublesome anomolies of primate evolution to create a highly original model of homonid phylogeny. The first of these anomolies is the total absence of chimpanzee and gorilla remains from the fossil record of Quaternary Africa. The second is the apparent ineffectiveness of pre-Levalloisian choppers and hand-axes as weapons of the chase or butchering tools.
Back to the drawing board...
"Use tools - feel human"
If his does, mine does, too. I'm a second cousin of his.
The Interstate Highway System is creating tens of thousands of new species of snakes and squirrels as we speak.
Humanzee hybrids make Gunter sad.
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