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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Eating bacon is not good for you? Impossible.
those apes are baboons
My question.... where are the lions????
In a properly evolved world, lions would know the fruit of the maroola tree yields easy pickin’s. There are wart hogs just lyin’ around for the eating
“It’s an interesting observation, but alas just a hypothesis and as such is specifically NOT passed off as science.”
A hypothesis is PART of the scientific process. You create a hypothesis as a possible explanation and then perform tests to prove the hypothesis.
Starting housing chimps and pigs together at the zoos - maybe we can start over.
I don’t know. I was skeptical until your evidence was presented.
Looks like a clincher to me...
The “professor” probably got his idea from these guys:
http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Manbearpig_(character)
This so called theory must be a joke. As a scientist it is hard for me to believe that anyone who even took high school biology would think pigs and apes could breed. If it is not a joke then it is really disturbing that such a biological illiterate who claims to be a geneticist could get a job at a university. This is like a physicist claiming to have invented a perpetual motion machine.
So a linguistics professor invented a machine where you put in you IQ and it haves a conversation with you on your own level. To test it out, a scientist put in an IQ of 150, and he had a fantastic conversation about astrophysics and the origins of mass extinctions. Another put in an IQ of 120, and they had a great conversation about English literature. A third put in an IQ of 85, and the machine asked, “How ‘BOUT them Dawgs?”
Let the pigs and the chimps get married by law and produce. Oh wait, leftist scientists would only approve of same sex arrangements. Those who would deny are just a bunch of ‘pigots’
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. Therefore, having invented the ManMonkeyPig Internet, I am prepared to resolve the Affordable Care act debacle by fhjk bu hjgf fghhhjj. Skygff hgfdq.
Mgrfyjgg,”
Algore
I’m afraid that it’s like that Loverboy song:
“Chimpanzee and pig DNA just won’t splice.”
[J]ust the gradual accumulation of molecular differences in sperm and egg recognition proteins would mean that pig sperm wouldn’t recognize a chimpanzee egg as a reasonable target for fusion,' PZ Myers writes.
Furthermore, the blogger explains, while chimps have 48 chromosomes, pigs have just 38.
Gives new meaning to the term, ‘male chauvenist pigs’. Finally no more guilt—thank you science for validating it.
Yes and it happened on a wire fence.
Why don’t we do it in the mud?...why don’t we a do it in the mmmuuuuuuuuuudddddd?...why don’t we do it in the mud?...
No one will be watching us..why don’t we do it in the mud?. Said Porky to Chimpy.
chimp = Hillary...pig = Bill?
So what are you saying? It was just one big orgy, with several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict? And we are the product of that?
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