Re: Why Large Gap Between Species...?

Elmo Attacks! (morrow@riph5.rice.edu)
7 Dec 96 19:18:22 -0600

turner@smarty.smart.net (Nat Turner) writes:
>>Wait a minute, let's get some clarification here -- Can a man impregnate
>>a chimp or ape?

Certainly not in the case of a chimp; I have read that there are several
reversals and transpositions between human and chimp DNA with the result
that a fertilized cell could not undergo mitosis properly and would
hence never develop.

-- 
"If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints."
--Alfonso the Wise

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