[extropy-chat] Human Evolution

[kevinfreels at hotmail.com]

That was either a mistake or a hoax. Oliver turned out to have the same number of chromosomes as any other chimp. http://robotics.stanford.edu/~oli/oliver.html
There was also a reference somewhere else that Discovery channel was doing a special on this back in May, but I can;t find anything on their website about it.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: bradbury 
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  Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Human Evolution


  On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:41pm The Avantguardian wrote:
  I found an interesting trail of references to an alleged manpanzee named Oliver. 

  > http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf110/sf110p06.htm

  Interestingly, the reference cited -- 
  Holden, Constance; "'Mutant' Chimp Gets a Gene Check," Science, 274:727, 1996.
  I cannot find in PubMed.

  I cannot view the Science web site abstract.  But the
  topic of the article seems reasonable -- *what* precisely
  is the chromosome structure for "Oliver"?  If indeed he
  is some form of a human-chimpanzee combination then it
  would suggest that my previous comments regarding the
  difficulty of producing offspring with different
  chromosome numbers may be less than I would have
  thought.

  Robert


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