Re: Things you don't want to know

På Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:09:04 +0100, skrev Optician Dragon <dragonlensman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:22:22 +0000 (UTC), Paulon <-@xxx> wrote:

With a deafening roar and a whoosh of spray, Polychromic swings about and
addresses the awaiting newsgroup...

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:33:33 +0000 (UTC), Paulon <-@xxx> wrote:

If they can't be crossbred, then they aren't the same species.
AFAIK nobody has produced a verifiable human/chimp hybrid.

AFAYK...

The difference in chromosome numbers between humans (46) and the great
apes (48) is a major problem in that. Sometime in human evolution, and
since the intermediate speciation period when they're sure that there
_was_ crossbreeding between proto-humans and proto-chimps, two chromosome
pairs merged into one.

Horses and donkeys can manage it with different numbers of chromosome
pairs, but the offspring is infertile. Presumably if someone did manage
to produce a 'humanzee' it would also be infertile.

They need to make a distinction between species that don't crossbreed
because of behavioral reasons and species that don't crossbreed because
their offspring aren't viable.

Like the experiments with similar bird species that wouldn't mate unless
the partner had their feathers painted to match their mate's species, but
still could produce viable offspring?


Hmmmm... and Poly has no offspring......coincidence??

As I've said before, in the US there are no coincidences (http://www.oilempire.us/conspiracy.html).

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