Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!massey.ac.nz!AChamove From: AChamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Man vs Woman vs Chimp DNA Percentages Message-ID: <999@massey.ac.nz> Date: 21 Sep 90 02:55:05 GMT References: <1803@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> <68103@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <7713@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Lines: 6 X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2.2 Over the past few years, there has been a lot of debate on the following question: If chimps and humans are so close genetically, then why can we not make hybrids? Of course a lot of people say that we can and could. Others say that there are incompatibilites, but no one I have encountered has been able to specify what those incompatibilites are. Can you? arnold