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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Man vs Woman vs Chimp DNA Percentages
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Date: 21 Sep 90 13:19:59 GMT
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In article <999@massey.ac.nz> AChamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove) writes:
>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

I guess it depends on where the 1% difference is!  1% is still a heck of a lot
of genes!!  Remember, the horse and donkey are closer (in the same genus, I
think), and while they can produce offspring, those offspring (mules) are
infertile.

David Mark
dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu