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BS: DNA Study-

17 May 06 - 02:21 PM (#1742514)
Subject: BS: DNA Study-
From: beardedbruce

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


17 May 06 - 02:36 PM (#1742526)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: GUEST,friend of Chongo

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


17 May 06 - 02:38 PM (#1742530)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Sorcha

Try telling it the to Bible Bangers and God Botherers.


17 May 06 - 02:38 PM (#1742531)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: beardedbruce

okay. THEY can deal with it.


17 May 06 - 02:43 PM (#1742535)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: beardedbruce

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


17 May 06 - 08:18 PM (#1742748)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: The Fooles Troupe

Yeah, beardedbruce

The other lots mentioned obviously can't...


18 May 06 - 03:29 AM (#1742918)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Paul Burke

So the ancestral population weren't MARRIED?


18 May 06 - 04:34 AM (#1742935)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: John O'L

Nah, just living together.


18 May 06 - 06:16 AM (#1742964)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: autolycus

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


18 May 06 - 07:19 AM (#1742989)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)

Reminds me of something Einstein said.

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


18 May 06 - 04:52 PM (#1743436)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

Source of Einstein quote?

(never mind)


18 May 06 - 06:09 PM (#1743495)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Peace

Google with quotes. Lotsa sites say it was his.


18 May 06 - 07:20 PM (#1743546)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Bill D

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*


18 May 06 - 07:30 PM (#1743550)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Bill D

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

Uncle Dave Macon will explain it!


18 May 06 - 09:27 PM (#1743606)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Kaleea

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


18 May 06 - 09:53 PM (#1743613)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Don Firth

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


18 May 06 - 11:46 PM (#1743662)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Bill D

"YES, we have no bananas!" ♫


19 May 06 - 11:51 AM (#1743949)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: John Hardly

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.


19 May 06 - 01:16 PM (#1743999)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Tannywheeler

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


19 May 06 - 02:49 PM (#1744064)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: catspaw49

Are you somehow implying that bananas migrate?

Spaw


19 May 06 - 03:02 PM (#1744073)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)

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


19 May 06 - 05:32 PM (#1744163)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: John Hardly

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


19 May 06 - 11:16 PM (#1744291)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Rutger

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


20 May 06 - 12:10 AM (#1744321)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: MarkS

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


25 May 06 - 04:41 AM (#1747129)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: JohnInKansas

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


25 May 06 - 04:59 AM (#1747140)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Liz the Squeak

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


25 May 06 - 10:49 AM (#1747319)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie

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

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


25 May 06 - 11:29 AM (#1747331)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: GUEST,Mrr

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?


25 May 06 - 11:44 AM (#1747339)
Subject: RE: BS: DNA Study-
From: Paul Burke

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