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Scientists map genome of the bonobo, a key human ancestor
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| 14 June 2012
| Eryn Brown
Posted on 06/13/2012 7:28:35 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
Whoever wrote this crap should be shot. Even a devout evolutionist does not believe a bonobo is an ancestor to a human.
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
06/13/2012 7:34:17 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
To: smokingfrog
I call Bullshit! I am not the descendant of a bonobo. If anything, bonobos and humans may, and that's a big may, have a common ancestor homonid in the far distant past. We are not descended from Pongidiae.
I prescind from comment on the question whether I am a Neandertal. I admit to Irish ancestry - that's enough for any man.
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
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posted on
06/13/2012 7:36:53 PM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: smokingfrog
The work revealed new details about bonobos' early historyThat bonobos ate bonbons?
To: smokingfrog
They should probe the genome of the Obanobo, a key descendent of Marx.
To: smokingfrog
Scientists map genome of the bonobo, a key human ancestor
There isn't a single scientist on the face of the planet who believes the bonobo is a human ancestor, key or otherwise. Whoever wrote the headline for the LA Times is a fool.
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Wait a minute; didn’t someone find Algore in this list maybe somewhere near the bottom?
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posted on
06/13/2012 7:43:08 PM PDT
by
Bowtie52
To: ConorMacNessa
I just checked my family tree.
Didn’t see Grandpa Bonobo there...
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posted on
06/13/2012 7:51:47 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Interesting.
Liberals have found grandpa, bonobo, an African ape. Does it look like obuma if he had a son?
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posted on
06/13/2012 7:53:55 PM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Public unions exist to protect the unions from the taxpaying public)
To: I see my hands
You’re definitely related.
I can hear the resemblance.
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posted on
06/13/2012 7:55:30 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
"Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner."
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posted on
06/13/2012 8:00:56 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: mamelukesabre
Basically correct ~ Bonobos are not our ancestors, nor are chimps. Even gorillas don't cut it.
The most recent discovery was that all the Great Apes have their chromosomes spliced together one way, and we have an entirely different way. Actually, it's almost opposite the way it's done in apes.
The division between humans and apes may well go back much further than anyone imagines ~ with the similarities being mostly parallel evolution.
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posted on
06/13/2012 8:03:48 PM PDT
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muawiyah
To: muawiyah
Indeed. The deeper we go, the more we find that separates us from the other Primates. Your main point is dead on: if we and they belong to the same biological tree, the branches are widely separated.
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posted on
06/13/2012 8:15:46 PM PDT
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RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: RobbyS
I recall when epigenetics became a real science within the last 5 years. Up to that moment there were people who thought genes were the be all end all of everything. Turns out they aren't, but then epigenetics is pretty slippery ~ i don't think the evolutionists have quite figured out what it does to their theories, but that's still ongoing.
This more recent discovery that during sexual reproduction the germ cell chromosomes bind to their partners with a different method than that used by the other apes definitely raised questions about how we ended up having some of our genes in common.
There are undoubtely ways other than sexual reproduction to acquire genes from other critters. We just don't know them yet. When we do I think our ideas about life's origins will change more than dramatically.
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posted on
06/13/2012 8:25:08 PM PDT
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muawiyah
To: smokingfrog
While the bonobo may be the surviving species with DNA most similar to us, our last common ancestor kicked the bucket some seven million years ago. Amazingly stupid headline.
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posted on
06/13/2012 8:25:58 PM PDT
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JimSEA
To: mamelukesabre
Where does this leave Obama?
To: muawiyah
Remeber that old saw: the more I know the more I know I dont know. Whatever makes us, US is still largely a mystery. No wonder the sci fi folks float the idea that our seed was planted by aliens. We are THAT different from other critters
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posted on
06/13/2012 8:32:19 PM PDT
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RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: smokingfrog
the bonobo, a key human ancestor Uh, that's a big bonono.
(Smoking frogs, on the other hand. . . .)
To: smokingfrog
Darn, at first I thought the scientists had decoded the Bonomo Genome. They and their Turkish Taffy have been extinct for some time.
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posted on
06/13/2012 8:57:10 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")
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