Re: Half Human?

william r smith (wrsmith@unm.edu)
15 Oct 1996 18:54:42 -0600

Charles Candy wrote:

Someone was telling me about an artical they read in the Dallas
Morning News about a chimp that was possibly half human.

C. Marc Wagner wrote:

It is nonsense. The two species cannot interbreed!

If it's possible for a horse and a donkey to interbreed and produce
a mule or for tigers and lions to interbreed, why wouldn't it be
possible for a chimpanzee and a human. I'm told the chimp and
human have more DNA in common than horse and donkey.

William Sburgfort Smith

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