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Subject: Re: Life imitates art?
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 05:21:45 EDT
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> In article <1084@aecom.YU.EDU> werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes:
> >	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.
> 
> Well, hmmm... horses and donkeys have different numbers of chromosomes
> (i don't remember the exact number, and I may be wrong entirely... no
> quick reference books about horses available).  When you breed a male
> donkey to a female horse, you get a sterile mule, and when you breed a
> male horse to a female donkey, you get a sterile hinny.
> 

Is that to say that our 'Planet of the Apes' cannot multiply
while they spend the night in each others' caves?

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