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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: Comments about SOR Pamphlet #4
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 03:21:50 EST
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> >                               You overlook the fact a chimpanzee is
> > physiologically very close to a human.  In fact, you could cross a chimp
> > with a human!  The offspring, however, would be sterile, for the same
> > reason that mules are sterile.
> 
> Can anyone verify this?
> -- 
> Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

No one would dare try the experiment.  The statement is based on what we know
about fertilization and chromosomes, and on the genetic differences between a
chimp and a human. (These are smaller than the genetic differences between a
chimp and any other ape!  The gorilla is the only possible exception to
this.)

Source:  \Ever Since Darwin/, by Stephen Jay Gould
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"  " -Charlie Chaplin, for IBM