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To: Cedric; Coyoteman

There was another more recent and less publicized fraud involving a professor and some chimpanzee skulls.

By the way coyote, you hardly have any room to be demanding considering all the challenges you ignore or run away from.


206 posted on 01/26/2009 4:20:02 PM PST by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

“There was another more recent and less publicized fraud involving a professor and some chimpanzee skulls.”

Could you possibly give me a citation or source for this? Thanks.


208 posted on 01/26/2009 4:40:31 PM PST by Boxen (There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.)
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To: valkyry1
If not a hoax, what can we call this?:

“Mutant Chicken Grows Alligatorlike Teeth
By David Biello (www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=mutant-chicken-grows-alli )

The mutant chickens Harris studied bear a recessive trait dubbed talpid2. This trait is lethal, meaning that such mutants are never born, but some incubate in eggs as long as 18 days. During that time, the same two tissues from which teeth develop in mammals come together in the jaw of the mutant embryo—and this leads to nascent teeth, a structure birds have lacked for at least 70 million years. “They don't make a molar,” explains development biologist John Fallon, who oversaw Harris’s work. “What they make is this conical, saber-shaped structure that is clearly a tooth. The other animal that has a tooth like that is an alligator.”

Notice, among other things, “..This trait is lethal”, is a “mutant”, is “never born”. Clearly not a tooth.

Left unsaid is that a bird beak is mostly keratin like it's claws or rhino horn. When it's said those bird “teeth’ look like alligator teeth it's in the most superficial way, their conical appearance.

The chicken “teeth” are thus a deformity. Read the whole article at the address given above.

209 posted on 01/26/2009 4:56:06 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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