Re: Greater than 98% Chimp/human DNA similarity? Not any more.

In message <Xns96E09CD5D88812galopagosterrapincy@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Cyde Weys
<cyde@xxxxxxx> writes
>John Harshman <jharshman.diespamdie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>news:7FU_e.1205$Y_5.242@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>> Yes. There are several known species in which chromosome number is
>> polymorphic within populations.
>
>Really? I've never even heard of such a thing. Can you give references
>please? I must educate myself! Thanks.
>

For example (available online, or at least was),

Wójcik et al, Evolution of the common shrew Sorex araneus: chromosomal
and molecular aspects, Acta Theriologica 47, Suppl. 1: 139-167 (2002)

Otherwise googling for "chromosomal races" should find some stuff.
--
alias Ernest Major


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