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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That was either a mistake or a hoax. Oliver turned
out to have the same number of chromosomes as any other chimp. <A
href="http://robotics.stanford.edu/~oli/oliver.html">http://robotics.stanford.edu/~oli/oliver.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:00
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] Human
Evolution</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:41pm The Avantguardian
<AVANTGUARDIAN2020@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>I found an interesting trail of
references to an alleged manpanzee named Oliver. <BR><BR>> <A
href="http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf110/sf110p06.htm">http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf110/sf110p06.htm</A><BR><BR>Interestingly,
the reference cited -- <BR>Holden, Constance; "'Mutant' Chimp Gets a Gene
Check," Science, 274:727, 1996.<BR>I cannot find in PubMed.<BR><BR>I cannot
view the Science web site abstract. But the<BR>topic of the article
seems reasonable -- *what* precisely<BR>is the chromosome structure for
"Oliver"? If indeed he<BR>is some form of a human-chimpanzee
combination then it<BR>would suggest that my previous comments regarding
the<BR>difficulty of producing offspring with different<BR>chromosome numbers
may be less than I would have<BR>thought.<BR><BR>Robert
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