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Re: apes and men
Barry Mennen (barrym2@ix.netcom.com(Barry)
1 Aug 1996 15:55:23 GMT
In <01bb7f23$28e50060$2569face@stubbville> "Robert A. Fournier"
<robert4269@earthlink.net> writes:
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>Cheradenine Zakalwe <zakalwe@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
><vmpzFBA9+l6xEw6T@vision25.demon.co.uk>...
>> In article <4sccgg$chh@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Tdewater
>> <tdewater@aol.com> writes:
>> >Is it possiable for a man and a ape have an offspring ?
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>> I doubt if it would be possible to find out, short of actually
>> performing such an experiment. The experiment would be considered
very
>> unethical, so if it has been done, the people involved aren't going
to
>> tell everyone.
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>> > If yes has it
>> >ever been done and what was the offspring like ?
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>> I imagine it would look something halfway between a chimp and a
human.
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>> The most recent common ancestor of chimps and humans is about 6 MYA.
>> What about horses and donkeys, or liones and tigers?
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>> --
>> Zakalwe
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>While it is true that chimps and man are conceivably closely enough
related
>to have an offspring (albeit a sterile one) the point is made moot by
the
>fact that apes and man have differing number of pairs of chromosomes,
>making cell division impossible. Read 'Origins Reconsidered' by
Richard
>Leakey, for more specific info.
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Nope--horses and zebras and donkeys have different # of chromosomes,
yet can have (sterile) offspring--the different number is apparently
not a dealbreaker here.
Barry M.
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