Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!sri-spam!ames!oliveb!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.research,sci.med,talk.rumors,misc.headlines Subject: Re: Life imitates art? Message-ID: <1194@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: Tue, 26-May-87 23:49:46 EDT Article-I.D.: epimass.1194 Posted: Tue May 26 23:49:46 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 05:51:50 EDT References: <6693@allegra.UUCP> <1664@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <1084@aecom.YU.EDU> <2816@felix.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 26 Xref: utgpu sci.research:111 sci.med:1926 talk.rumors:722 misc.headlines:557 In article <2816@felix.UUCP> daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards) writes: >In article <1084@aecom.YU.EDU> werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes: >>> > >>> > ITALIAN SCIENTISTS CONFIRM APEMAN CAN BE CREATED >> >> This ignores the fact that Apes have 48 chromosomes and >>humans have 46, and sounds more like somebody's idea of a hoax, >That's funny. In biology I was taught that humans ARE apes. Maybe you mean >"all OTHER apes have 48 chromosomes", but I don't know if that is true. Someone told me that by comparing banding patterns on the chromosomes, there's a human chromosome pair that corresponds almost perfectly to two chromosome pairs in chimpanzees, so there was evidently a breaking or merging at some point. But I still think the apeman story is a hoax, since if it were real you'd find it reported somewhere else than in a signle tabloid (like: every network would spend half their newscast on it, and Ted Koppel would devote a Nightline to it, etc). -- - Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (in the brave new world of domains!) {seismo,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck