Someone tell the koranimal, the pig was most reluctant...and tried to run away:
Posted on 11/30/2013 3:12:24 AM PST by 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.
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Well, if I’m a chimpiggy then I guess homosexuality is genetic.
Well, don’t tell the Muslims! sarc/off
I was under the impression that humans are genetically closer to the bonobo monkey than to the chimpanzee...
Thanks!
We’re closer to rice I think, than we are to either chimp. :’)
Thanks, this guy’s blog, “Macroevolution”, isn’t half as interesting as the “Mackerel Evolution” blog, where it’s believed that our ancestors were a fish-seamonkey cross.
That’s swine with me. ;’)
Great, now I’m hungry for some natural casing sausage...
And for dessert, lady fingers.
Great minds run in the same gutter — that book came immediately to mind here as well. The author cites a list of odd characteristics found in humans but not in any other (living) primates, some of which are actually true. :’)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1376168/posts?page=15#15
Yeah, that would wreck their whole cannibalism thing.
LOL!
It’s hilarious that the author of the theory suggests that the pig was the aggressor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTHmRSzn14s
Jeepers... thanks for the ping!
Someone tell the koranimal, the pig was most reluctant...and tried to run away:
Gimme a break. I got one guy telling me it IS science, and now you telling me it is not.
A hypothesis is just that. It may be a precursor to more research, or it may not. I’m not saying I agree with him, but he did just state a hypothesis, and folks are getting all worked up like it’s peer-reviewed science. It’s not.
That’s sort of the point.
Dr Eugene McCarthy of the University of Georgia, may have evolved from an interesting amalgamation of a chimp and a pig (a ‘Chig’? a ‘Pimp’? or perhaps a ‘Chog’?), but we normal beings come from our forebears, and are content to permit Dr McCarthy to entertain us with speculations about his more colorful ancestors.
Sorry.
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