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From: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh)
Newsgroups: sci.research,sci.med,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Life imitates art?
Message-ID: <422@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 22:45:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 24 22:45:19 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 25-May-87 04:44:51 EDT
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Reply-To: emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh)
Organization: Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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In article <1084@aecom.YU.EDU> werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes:
>In article <1664@tekcrl.TEK.COM>, terryl@tekcrl.TEK.COM writes:
>> In article <6693@allegra.UUCP> atd@allegra.UUCP (Anton Dahbura) writes:
>> >
>> >      ITALIAN SCIENTISTS CONFIRM APEMAN CAN BE CREATED
>> >
>> >      by Uli Schmetzer (Chicago Tribune, May 14, 1987)
>
>	This ignores the fact that Apes have 48 chromosomes and
>humans have 46, and sounds more like somebody's idea of a hoax,
>or a typical article from the National Enquirer.

Hybrids of this sort are fairly common  --  mules, cotton, wheat, ...
some are naturally occuring, others are manmade.  Of course, this doesn't
mean that a man/ape is possible.

As Pnews filler:  If you match up the chromosomes of humans and the
great apes (chimps, gorillas,...) based on their banding patterns, you
will notice two striking things:
1)  Human chromosome #2 matches with 2 chromosomes for each of the
great apes -- this is the difference in chromosome number, either
a fission of chromosomes leading to man, or a fusion of chromosomes
leading to the great apes.
2)  In nearly each chromosome there is at least one inversion in one
species as compared to the others.  This leads one to speculate as to
the importance of inversions (and other chromosomal mutations) to
evolution.
(Hope that satisfies the Pnews line counter!)
-- 
Ted H. Emigh, Departments of Genetics & Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
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