Re: Change from 48 to 46 chromosomes
Daniel D Scripture (scriptu@cats.ucsc.edu)
13 Oct 1995 05:45:46 GMT
In article <45hi7e$jjl@ednet1.osl.or.gov> dtyler@ednet1.osl.or.gov (donald e. tyler) writes:
>
>Any evolutionary guesses
>as to how apes with 48
>chromosomes were changed
>to homo sapiens with 46?
>--
>
Why sure: one of those lost chromosomes controlled our previous
propensity for hairiness, and the other is what kept us
knucklewalkers. Probably a bad _guess_, but it keeps me out of a lot
of fruitless arguments.
Dan Scripture
UC Santa Cruz
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