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From: daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,soc.women
Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 17:32:10 EDT
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In article <343@dg-rtp.UUCP>, throopw@dg-rtp.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) writes:
> > rmr@chefchu.SGI.COM (Robert Reimann)
> > If I
> > remember correctly, the point where the gorilla/human ancestor split from
> > chimps is not very far from the point where gorilla and human lines split.
> Um.  I don't think this is correct.  In the "Eve" episode of Nova last
> year, the diagram was resolved by molecular similarity studies in the
> opposite way (that is, "chimps" and "gorillas" should be exchanged in
> the above diagram).

I sent mail to rmr saying more or less the same thing.  He wrote back, saying
that he rechecked his sources, and he got gorillas and chimps transposed,
and also that his news access has been flaky and to go ahead and post the
correction.

My source says that gorillas and chimphumans diverged about 6 million years
ago, and chimps diverged from humans about 4.5 million years ago.  The
article goes on to suggest that perhaps humans should be reclassified as
Pan Sapiens (interesting idea, but i would give long odds against).


david rickel
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