Evolution study tightens human-chimp connection

EurekAlert (AAAS) ^ | 23 January 2006 | Staff

[PatrickHenry]

I post, you decide.

[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping The List-O-Links

A conservative, pro-evolution science list, now with over 340 names. See the list's explanation, then FReepmail to be added or dropped. To assist beginners: But it's "just a theory", Evo-Troll's Toolkit, and How to argue against a scientific theory.

[Revolting cat!]

[MeanWestTexan]

The response will be that God merely ran out of ideas and used almost the same design.

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More, if you run out...

[r-q-tek86]

Engineer evolution?

[PatrickHenry]

Two more sites added my browser's "block images" list.

[DesertSapper]

I know some act like apes but . . .

I was made in the image of God. I believe that precludes a close relation to a chimp as God isn't remotely like a chimp.

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[warpcorebreach]

And we have hair- too- just like chimps! And I can actually make a chimp face (with mannerisms) -- my nieces love it!

SPooky....

Rate of molecular evolution.. ha- nice try. DOn't we share most of our genome with a form of slime mold? I'm serious. Even closer to this mold than a chimp. And for breast milk checmistry, humans are closer to donkeys than primates. And I understand the center of the human brain is actually more reptilian than mammalian- I know lots of people who are lizard-like in fact. Bought a car from one recently.

[LongElegantLegs]

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found genetic evidence that seems to support a controversial hypothesis that humans and chimpanzees may be more closely related to each other than chimps are to the other two species of great apes – gorillas and orangutans. They also found that humans evolved at a slower rate than apes.

Are they saying that gorillas and orangutans are more highly evolved than humans are?

[Fierce Allegiance]

BASTARD! (lol!)

Hey, how'd he get my HP48GX?

[Coyoteman]

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[DoNotDivide]

You post. I decide?

Evolution is for the morally challenged and mentally shallow.

That was easy!

[JTN]

Trippy

[whattajoke]

Evolution is for the morally challenged and mentally shallow.

I'm intrigued. Please explain.

[planekT]

Aha! Proof that popcorn evolves from kernels due to the influence of evolution threads.

[sagar]

"it suggests that certain human-specific traits, like generation time, began to evolve one million years ago"

One million years ago? But, the universe is only 10,000 years old! How could this be? Are the godless scientists saying that human-specific traits evolved before the universe even existed?

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[longshadow]

Blockquote>"I think we can say that this study provides further support for the hypothesis that humans and chimpanzees should be in one genus, rather than two different genus' because we not only share extremely similar genomes, we share similar generation time," said Yi."

I'll bet J. Fred Muggs knew this all along.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Muggs