Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Re: Comments about SOR Pamphlet #4 Message-ID: <194@talcott.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 03:21:50 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.194 Posted: Tue Dec 18 03:21:50 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:23:07 EST References: <190@talcott.UUCP> <576@uwmacc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Lines: 21 > > 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 --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk " " -Charlie Chaplin, for IBM