'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig

Daily Mail ^ | 09:45 GMT, 30 November 2013 | By DAMIEN GAYLE

[Eurotwit]

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.

[Silentgypsy]

Maybe he cracked after the strain of earning his PhD? Maybe he wants to cross over into stand up comedy?

[TheRightGuy]

Oh, yeah. I can see a male pig chasing a female chimp all around the forest and trees finally getting his way with her.

no, but i can imagine a well hung gorilla making a sow sqeal

[trisham]

Good grief.

[Pollster1]

Photographic evidence - a picture of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, each of whom combines the worst caricatures of pigs and of chimps.

[woofie]

I ate two pieces of old granddaddy this AM

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eurotwit.

The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee... 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... 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... He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis, but he presents compelling evidence to support it.

Hasn't it ever struck you as odd that pig heart parts have been transplanted into humans without trouble?

Oh, btw, fwiw, Edgar Cayce said that the Sons of Belial in Atlantis genetically engineered animals using the human genome, and one of those engineered species was the pig. :')

Chimps, btw, have 24 chromosome pairs, humans have 23, pigs have 38 -- but the opossum has 22.

Interesting topic, an additional ping to the Digest group.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) When I was younger and more foolish, I heard an interesting tail of the formaldehyde-preserved born-dead offspring of a degenerate farmer and a pig.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fractal Trader. Nothing builds up replies like a thread about interspecies hanky-panky. Next up, Catherine the Great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5AZMqhKW0

http://afternoonsnoozebutton.com/post/29941517079/the-big-bang-theory-is-racist

[SunkenCiv]

Now you know why he stutters.

[null and void]

Hasn't it ever struck you as odd that pig heart parts have been transplanted into humans without trouble?

I know pig valves can have all their surface proteins stripped off/denatured and used in humans, but I am unaware of any successful living tissue implants from pig to human.

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] As I would later learn, pig valves have been used as human heart valve transplants for over twenty years. Companies including Edwards Lifesciences and St. Jude Medical are the leading pig valve replacement manufacturers. Interestingly enough, cow valve tissue is also used in the construction of pericardial heart valve replacements – known as bovine valves. [/snip]

http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2007/09/19/pig-valve-replacement/

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] By some amazing twist of evolution, human heart valves and pig valves are very similar in structure and function. That said, pig valve replacement surgery is rather common. [/snip]

http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2007/09/19/pig-valve-replacement/

[Fred Nerks]

"I'm Gene McCarthy, the Director of Macroevolution.net. I'm a geneticist and my wife, Rebecca, and I live in Athens, Georgia with our two little girls, Clara and Margaret. Rebecca is the the editor-in-chief of the local online newspaper Athens & Oconee Patch. I spent a lot of my life in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia, here in Athens. I hold a masters and a PhD in genetics, and an undergraduate degree in mathematics, all from the University of Georgia. During my years at the department, I studied molecular evolution, taught biology and genetics, and did genetic research. I have also spent years collecting information about fossils.

"In addition, I've made an ongoing study of hybridization, and a special study of hybridization in birds. My magnum opus, Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World (Oxford University Press, 2006), a reference book for both birders and professional biologists, provides information on about 4,000 distinct types of hybrid crosses among birds and cites more than 5,000 publications. Currently, I'm writing a similar book on hybridization among mammals, a version of which I'm making available on the website. I'm also working on a second edition of Handbook of Avian Hybrids.

"During my years at the genetics department, I became increasingly dissatisfied with the standard explanation of evolution. The more I read about fossils, the more convinced I became that Darwin's account of the evolutionary process was fundamentally flawed. Moreover, in my study of hybrids I became aware that an alternative way of thinking about evolution, what I now call "stabilization theory," could do a better job of explaining the available data... blah blah blah...

source

[Chickensoup]

[snip] As I would later learn, pig valves have been used as human heart valve transplants for over twenty years. Companies including Edwards Lifesciences and St. Jude Medical are the leading pig valve replacement manufacturers. Interestingly enough, cow valve tissue is also used in the construction of pericardial heart valve replacements – known as bovine valves. [/snip]

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And the pig replacement is considered a success if the patient revives, snorts and then tucks into a pail of corn.

Bovine replacement success is ensured when the patient shows up at the barn at milking time.

[null and void]

Yes, but they are stripped of living cells that would cause rejection, they are essentially leather valve structures, ones that are in the mechanical form of a living valve, but are utterly dead tissue.

The collagen structure is ultimately colonized by the patients own cells.

Pretty kewl.

[JimSEA]

An excellent satire. However, the Dr. Is gainfully employed at an “educational” institution. This means he is paid in some portion by tax money.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The author posits that we were bred as workers/pets by reptilian aliens to do their dirty work.

[Redcitizen]

Oh, btw, fwiw, Edgar Cayce said that the Sons of Belial in Atlantis genetically engineered animals using the human genome, and one of those engineered species was the pig.

So that’s how we came to have the term “Long Pig.”

[Gator113]

Finally, a reasoned explanation for Michelle Obama’s butt.

[ZULU]

Sounds like a description of Muslims.