BS: DNA Study-

Subject: BS: DNA Study-
From: beardedbruce
Date: 17 May 06 - 02:21 PM

NEW YORK (AP) -- Humans and chimps diverged from a single ancestral population through a complex process that took 4 million years, according to a new study comparing DNA from the two species.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/17/human.chimp.split.ap/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: GUEST,friend of Chongo
Date: 17 May 06 - 02:36 PM

This human species is a poor mutation with tendencies to violence & paranoia. Chimps rule, okay?

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 May 06 - 02:38 PM

Try telling it the to Bible Bangers and God Botherers.

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: beardedbruce
Date: 17 May 06 - 02:38 PM

okay. THEY can deal with it.

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: beardedbruce
Date: 17 May 06 - 02:43 PM

(my post was in answer to GUEST,friend of Chongo)

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 May 06 - 08:18 PM

Yeah, beardedbruce

The other lots mentioned obviously can't...

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:29 AM

So the ancestral population weren't MARRIED?

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: John O'L
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:34 AM

Nah, just living together.

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: autolycus
Date: 18 May 06 - 06:16 AM

The story reminds me of the gag about two blokes in a Hungarian chess cafe discussing history.

    One says,"A recent study has shown that the Earth is 30 million years old."(An old joke, you see.)

    A chess player whips round and asks,"Whay did you say?".

    "Apparently the Earth is 30 million years old."

    "Thank goodness,"says the chess man,"For a moment I thought you said '35 million!".



    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 18 May 06 - 07:19 AM

Reminds me of something Einstein said.

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:52 PM

Source of Einstein quote?

(never mind)

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Peace
Date: 18 May 06 - 06:09 PM

Google with quotes. Lotsa sites say it was his.

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Bill D
Date: 18 May 06 - 07:20 PM

The real bomb in the article is that they think there was interbreeding AFTER the split.....Old line, "well, I'll be a monkey's Uncle" may not be far off! *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Bill D
Date: 18 May 06 - 07:30 PM

hey...you want the definitive answer on the issue?

Uncle Dave Macon will explain it!

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Kaleea
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:27 PM

as Der Bingle sang, all the monkeys aren't in the zoo . . .

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:53 PM

I heard that report on NPR this morning. I thought at the time, "Boy, that's going to go over real big down at Oral Roberts University!"

Pass the bananas, please. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Bill D
Date: 18 May 06 - 11:46 PM

"YES, we have no bananas!" ♫

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: John Hardly
Date: 19 May 06 - 11:51 AM

Seems that what's really ground-breaking is not yet another study that shows similarity between species. Heck, we've known that.

What seems groundbreaking is that in a closed laboratory setting they can now actually cause the change from one species DNA to another species DNA to occur with a stop watch on the event. So now we can know definitively how long man has been on earth -- and if we can know that now with this new certainty, we're only a short way away from mapping all the genes, causing the same change to occur between each organism, time that, and we should be able to determine the exact age of biology.

Then we can double-check that against the geological record and know without any lingering doubt how everything happened.

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 19 May 06 - 01:16 PM

Uncle Dave notwithstanding, I think DNA is closer to the truth. There is even DNA in music. This forum proves it constantly. Tw

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 May 06 - 02:49 PM

Are you somehow implying that bananas migrate?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 19 May 06 - 03:02 PM

From what I read we are just adding pieces to a very large jigsaw puzzle. In the end it may very well turn out to be something that looks entirely different from the picture on the box the pieces came in.

Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: John Hardly
Date: 19 May 06 - 05:32 PM

I have NEVER eaten a banana that did not migrate south.

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Rutger
Date: 19 May 06 - 11:16 PM

Well, for me, this whole Human Genome thing has rendered me yet another dose of humility - in that now I know how closely I am related to the fruit fly. Mmmm. Excuse me I have a sweet craving.
-Rutger

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: MarkS
Date: 20 May 06 - 12:10 AM

Maybe that explains why and old girlfriend yelled "throwback" before she stormed out.

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 May 06 - 04:41 AM

This thread may have worn itself out, but a search for an urban legend about an enormous grizzly, on behalf of a gullible friend, did confirm the enormous lie but not the grizzly. It also turned up an instance of "genetically isolated critters" breeding back together, which was one of the key points of the originally cited article here.

The grolar bear, or maybe it's a pizzly bear, is proof positive that interspecies breeding is not limited strictly to sheep country (although it was found in Canada) ...

John

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 May 06 - 04:59 AM

The most popular variety of banana may soon be extinct.... there's a banana bug going round killing off all the banana trees... Chongo may have to learn to deal with oranges.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 25 May 06 - 10:49 AM

"Are you somehow implying that bananas migrate?" - Catspaw

Well, they could be carried, by birds...

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 25 May 06 - 11:29 AM

Actually, we diverged from the common ancestor of chimps and bonobos, not from the chimpanzees of today; it's just as true to say we diverged from bonobos as it is to say it's from chimpanzees. I rather like the bonobos... wonder if bipedalism evolved after the frontwards sex?

Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Paul Burke
Date: 25 May 06 - 11:44 AM

I think bisexualism evolved after the backpedalling. Anyway I thought bonobo was French for sweetie.