Human-Animal Hybrids!

11:05 pm EST May 17th, 2006 | Politics | 12 Comments

Alert El Presidente…

According to the new theory, chimps and humans shared a common apelike ancestor much more recently than was thought. Furthermore, when the two emerging species split from each other, it was not a clean break. Some members of the two groups seem to have interbred about 1.2 million years after they first diverged — before going their separate ways for good.

If this theory proves correct, it will mean modern people are descended from something akin to chimp-human hybrids. That is a new idea, and it challenges the prevailing view that hybrids tend to die out.

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12 Responses to “Human-Animal Hybrids!”

  1. doug r says:
    May 18, 2006 at 9:05 am

    Further proof that simians will fuck ANYTHING!

  2. mr.curmudgeon says:
    May 18, 2006 at 11:05 am

    Some members of the two groups seem to have interbred about 1.2 million years after they first diverged…

    That would be the Bush lineage.

  3. JK says:
    May 19, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    Careful, there OW…any discussion at all of the fact that human beings might have a smidgeon of DNA in common with chimpanzees, will drive the religous right into a foaming, frothing uproar. Witness: The Davinci Code (The Book and Movie).

    Hey…at least *that* is fiction. The above, is science.

    Daily reads of Crusty McFrank and Dugger’s entries on this blog are supportive of the above theory.

    JK

  4. Frank_D says:
    May 19, 2006 at 3:05 pm

    Oh, you clever devil, Jerky Knothead! Guess who I think is descended from the Chimp?

  5. Bushwacked says:
    May 20, 2006 at 5:05 am

    Oh, you clever devil, Jerky Knothead! Guess who I think is descended from the Chimp?

    Jenna and Barbara, right? Sorry, but that one was hard to pass up.

  6. buma says:
    May 20, 2006 at 10:05 am

    You cheated, Bushwacked. frank was not looking for the obvious answer.

  7. Frank_D says:
    May 20, 2006 at 10:05 am

    I’ll bet Jenna and Barbara are prettier than anyone you ever dated, human or simian…
    I can keep this up indefinitely.

  8. Frank_D says:
    May 20, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    My answer is awaiting Oliver’s blessing, but now I get the joke.
    Honestly, I have never “got” why Bush is called a chimp.

  9. Rounds77 says:
    May 20, 2006 at 4:05 pm

    Do you “get” why he’s called Alfred E Newman?

  10. Frank_D says:
    May 20, 2006 at 9:05 pm

    Yeah, that one I get… Making fun of how the President looks doesn’t have quite the thrill for me it does for Democratics making fun of Bush, but to each his / her own.

  11. doug r says:
    May 21, 2006 at 12:05 am

    Found the original article:
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature04789.html

  12. Frank_D says:
    May 21, 2006 at 1:05 am

    So, a zillion years ago, when men looked like apes anyway, according to those silly charts that start with a gorilla, and end with a guy in a business suit, they were making it other ape – like whatevers.
    Back then, a chimp may have looked better than Og’s prom date.