[extropy-chat] Human Evolution

[Duane Hewitt]

The mystery has been solved

Check http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/creatures/olivera.htm

Paper
Ely, J.J., Leland, M., Martino, M., Swett, W., and Moore, C.M., 1998.
Technical report: chromosomal and mtDNA analysis of Oliver.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105(3): 395-403.

Quote
"Our results indicate that Oliver is a member of the Pan troglodytes 
troglodytes subspecies from Central Africa, has 48 normal chimpanzee 
chromosomes, and was likely trapped in Gabon. Full details behind our 
conclusions can be found in our report"

Qouote from page author who is a co-author on the paper of the genetic 
analysis of "Oliver"
"I might add that, from what I have seen so far, those who really want to 
believe in highly intelligent, bipedal African man-apes ("Apamandi" and 
whatnot) who continue to elude field primatologists, the bushmeat market 
etc, will not be dissuaded by any amount of evidence. The persistence of 
these deeply-rooted beliefs, as psychological facts, are an interesting 
phenomenon in their own right."





At 02:00 PM 11/19/03 -0800, you wrote:
>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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