Nicker on 15/11/2006 at 13:28
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
So "commie monkey fucker"
is a legitimate insult!
Damn it! Chimps are apes, not monkeys!
It's commie ape fucker!
Nicker on 15/11/2006 at 14:06
Quote Posted by ercles
Can anybody subscribed to New York Times, or who read the article, give me some sort of idea how exactly they identified some of our DNA as Neanderthal DNA?
Try googling Neanderthal DNA to get the skinny on the controversy.
Meanwhile, if you want to see where you fall on the continuum between sapien
and homo, (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/cavemen/) try this helpful quiz.
Dia on 15/11/2006 at 15:16
Many years ago I was online looking for helpful hints about how to housebreak our new puppy and I stumbled upon a forum called Love Your Dog (or something similar - it's been a long time). Needless to say, after about the first 30 secs. of reading I realized the members meant that literally. Don't know if any of the members actually ever had litters; never went back to check.
I needed counselling after that.
:o
demagogue on 15/11/2006 at 15:20
Iirc the NYTimes article on this, there was another big issue that seemed more eyebrow raising, to me at least, than interbreeding between humans and neandrethal. Apparently, the homo line never made a clean break with the to-become-chimpanzee line for a good first million years to even start things off, and there was a hybrid population between the two, sort of like mules. This idea is supposed to reconcile the earliest hominid fossil date with the date of the latest chimp-shared genetic markers at a much later date, and this explanation is better than the alternatives.
The big question is which population died out, some of them saying that the pure-human line actually died out and the hybrids went on to become the homo line (when somehow they became sexually viable). So you're all a bunch of fucking hybrid monkeymen. :D (I mean apemen, thanks nicker).
edit: Oh, the also awesome application of decoding Neandrethal DNA is that we actually have a viable chance of cloning one and bringing the species back into existence ... a sort of belated "Sorry, guys; hope this makes up for it" from humans for starving them into extinction in the first place.
My only question is if we'd have to amend the Declaration on the Rights of Man, Bill of Rights, "all men are created equal", etc, but to say what?
Rogue Keeper on 15/11/2006 at 15:32
Quote:
In the 1920s, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin sent an animal-breeding expert to Africa in hopes of creating an army of half-man, half-monkey soldiers. Attempts both to inseminate women with monkey sperm and impregnate female chimpanzees with human sperm failed.
Yes, but you know that genetic research has made a big (
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/4167/hybriduj3.jpg) quantum leap in recent years.
On a more serious note, browsing a study book on rare birth defects makes a laic think it's really possible.
You know, babies with gills and stuff.
EDIT : oh, this is what I've been looking for!
Quote:
Rumored animal-human crosses from the past few hundred years have included .... a monkey-girl
WARNING : animal nudity? :erm:
(
http://www.missioncreep.com/mundie/gallery/gallery23.htm)
TTK12G3 on 15/11/2006 at 15:53
[QUOTE=]In the 1920s, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin sent an animal-breeding expert to Africa in hopes of creating an army of half-man, half-monkey soldiers. Attempts both to inseminate women with monkey sperm and impregnate female chimpanzees with human sperm failed.What? Do they mean Ivanov? He was exiled for those experiments.
