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From: AChamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Human/Chimp Hybrids?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 03:55:08 GMT
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I agree that the unequal chromosome numbers would not preclude a
chimp-human hybrid. A primatologist (Chiarelli) collected monkey hybrids
and there were a number with different chromosome numbers.

I remember reading a book called THE MURDER OF THE MISSING LINK (fiction) years
ago. The premise was as follows: that someone had crossed a chimp with a
human, and to determine its "true" (legal) nature, he had killed it. Most
of the book was concerned with the trial--was he guilty of murder?

arnold