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Title: Human, Chimp Ancestors May Have Mated, DNA Suggests
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URL Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/humans-chimps.html
Published: May 18, 2006
Author: Brian Handwerk
Post Date: 2006-05-18 21:10:39 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 161
Comments: 11
Early human ancestors and chimpanzee ancestors may have mated and produced offspring, according to a new DNA study. The study suggests that the human and chimp lineages initially split off from a single ape species about ten million years ago. Later, early chimps and early human ancestors may have begun interbreeding, creating hybrids—and complicating and prolonging the evolutionary separation of the two lineages. Human ancestor picture - human ancestors and chimp ancestors may have mated, study says Enlarge Photo Email to a Friend RELATED * Human Genome Shows Proof of Recent Evolution, Survey Finds * Was Darwin Wrong? * Fossil Find is Missing Link in Human Evolution, Scientists Say The second and final split occurred some four million years after the first one, the report proposes. "One thing that emerges [from the data] is a reestimate of the date when humans and chimps last exchanged genes," said David Reich, a professor at Harvard Medical School's Department of Genetics in Boston. "Our data strongly suggest that [the last gene exchange] occurred more recently than 6.3 million years ago and probably more recently than 5.4 million years ago," said Reich, senior author of the study, to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature. "This paper is very interesting, because it provides a hypothesis that is outside of the currently accepted dogma," said Kateryna Makova, a professor at Pennsylvania State University's Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics who is unaffiliated with the study. (Related news: "Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds" [2005].) Did Human, Chimp Ancestors Hybridize? "The genome analysis revealed big surprises, with major implications for human evolution," biologist Eric Lander said in a release announcing the findings. Lander is director of the Broad Institute, a cooperative institute for genomic medicine in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA. The human genome, for example, contains some 3 billion base pairs, which code for the approximately 30,000 genes that define a person's unique traits. (See our quick overview of human genetics.) "First, human-chimp speciation occurred more recently than previous estimates. Second, the speciation itself occurred in an unusual manner that left a striking impact across chromosome X," Lander said. This sex-determining chromosome typically occurs in pairs in cells of females and combined with a Y chromosome in cells of males.
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#1. To: All, jethro tull, lodwick, zipporah (#0)
See I wasn't making this stuff up.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson
This is obviously bullshit. I think this "scientist" just wants to fuck a monkey and not be ridiculed. He will say it was a science experiment.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson
I think you're the one with the monkey fuck fetish ;)
"We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent." - International financier and CFR member James Warburg Feb. 7, 1950
No but I saw 2 camels or was it hippos doing it on a cheech and chong movie.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson
Oh good Lord. Will evolutionists stop at nothing, no matter how ridiculous, to rationalize what they believe?
Freeper motto: "I read, but do not understand; I write, but make no sense."
Thats kind of the way I see it. Good to agree with you on this one.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
Why is my link bigger? You think im less "evolved" or something?
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson
Nope, it's the tags. < h1 > < /h1 >
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
I was just kidding.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson
#2. To: All (#0)
Early human ancestors and chimpanzee ancestors may have mated and produced offspring, according to a new DNA study.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
I think this "scientist" just wants to fuck a monkey and not be ridiculed.
#4. To: j.sulli (#3)
I think you're the one with the monkey fuck fetish ;)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#6. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
Oh good Lord. Will evolutionists stop at nothing, no matter how ridiculous, to rationalize what they believe?
#7. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#8. To: All (#7)
#9. To: BTP Holdings (#8)
#10. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Why is my link bigger? You think im less "evolved" or something?
#11. To: BTP Holdings (#10)
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