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Nature: Chimpanzee and human ancestors may have interbred
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The evolutionary split between humans and our nearest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees, may have occurred more recently than we thought, according to a new comparison of the respective genetic sequences. What's more, it might have been a messy divorce rather than a clean break — leading to the controversial theory that our two sets of ancestors may have interbred many thousands of years after first parting company. ...
If such a hybrid population really did exist, the question remains as to whether it died out, or whether modern humans or chimpanzees (or both) are its descendants. It's very difficult to say, admits Reich. "The fossil data suggest — very tenuously — that it may have been humans who are descended from the hybrid population."
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Cue the Dubya photoshops in 3, 2, 1...
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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No need for photoshopping.
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Originally Posted by Millennium
Cue the Dubya photoshops in 3, 2, 1...
Oh dear. I actually did not anticipate that possibility. You've made a monkey out of me.
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The rich are cheap. That's how they got rich.
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Brings new meaning to the term "Jungle Love".
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