Re: Why Large Gap Between Species...?

Nat Turner (turner@smarty.smart.net)
6 Dec 1996 23:19:50 GMT

In article <58a9h2$3ar@news.smart.net>,
Nat Turner <turner@smarty.smart.net> wrote:
>In article <MPG.d11fec0d6788398989687@client.news.psi.net>,
>Noel Dickover <ndickover@ver.lld.com> wrote:
>>In article <588lag$s4j@news.smart.net>, turner@smarty.smart.net says...
>>> In article <58774n$iib@newsgate.duke.edu>,
>>> Geoff Alex Cohen <gac@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>>> >Nat Turner (turner@smarty.smart.net) wrote:
>>> >: Why do you assume there was "competition"? I doubt seriously if piths
>>> >: competed against hominids.
>>> >
>>> Which begs the question, "Why didn't the piths kill off apes and chimps?"
>>>
>>> Nat
>>
>>I don't think we can rule out the possibility that these groups could
>>still breed with one another, and that, through time, they evolved into a
>>single species.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Noel Dickover
>
>
>Wait a minute, let's get some clarification here -- Can a man impregnate
>a chimp or ape?
>
>Is it biologically possible?
>
>Nat Turner
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