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From: pell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Pelletier)
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Subject: Re: Hybrids of Apes and Humans
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 01:17:26 EDT
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(Craig Werner) writes:
>
>	I knew I should have stopped at saying that the posting looked
>like it came right out of the National Enquirer.  After all, the whole idea
>of breeding slaves went out of style over a hundred years ago.  However,
>I added a possible biological objection, knowing full well about Donkeys
>and Mules,  Chick-Quail Hybrids, etc., but said it anyway.
>-- 
>			      Craig Werner (MD/PhD '91)

I almost forgot (okay, I did forget--temporarily) to say that the 
chick-quail thing you mention (under the heading of "impress everyone
with the examples I know") is a chimera, made by manipulating embyos.
It is not a hybrid at all.  Each cell has only chick or only quail DNA.
Therefore it is an irrelevent example from the standpoint of pairing
chromosomes (and hence, to the question of aneuploidy).

You see Craig, it is not so much catching you in a mistake that is hard
so much as it is to choose from among the mistakes and absurdities 
(or to remember them) in writing a response.

A.J.P.(I've forgotten what degrees I've earned--and never count the ones
       I plan to earn)

P.S. Craig tells us in soc.women that the reason he signs "MD/PhD '91"
    is that people are always interested in hearing when he graduates.
    I think I can speak for the rest of the group when I say the burning
    interest we all surely felt has been quelled.  Since, as you say, that
    was your only reason for including it, you can now feel comfortable
    omitting it.