Apparently, mammals (including primates) have been observed to successfully interbreed (produce fertile offspring,) even with differing chromsome counts. I...
... Hi Jack, That's true. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply they don't have the same chromosome count. I just came across the information about interbreeding...
Global Warming Behind Early Primate Diaspora? http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20060626084521data_trunc_sys.shtml Another, related, article: Crop Yields Set To...
Note, I'm not drawing any particular conclusions from this. I merely thought it might be of interest. Dan -- http://www.parapundit.com/archives/003046.html ...
I visited the American Indian Musuem in DC this past weekend and found another legend of a hairy-faced man of the forest in the "Listening to Our Ancestors:...
Hi Anthony, Thanks for the info. Do you recall if any other details about that legendary hominid were presented at the Museum? Dan ... found ... the...
Looks like another example of evolutionary/genetic "funny business." A dog cell becoming a cancer, and eventually becoming its own species! Dan ... ...
... wrote: Philip, I agree with what you say below. I think another way to look at it is, this canid cancer may represent a symbiotic organism, similar to how...
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Note, this was published in 1985, when I was just starting high school. I vaguely recall reading this article as a Sophomore, in an "Advanced Biology" class...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30182 Can a worm a day keep asthma at bay? Scientists develop new treatment for allergic diseases Main...
Speaking of parasitic worms, and evolution involving not-always- expected interactions between different species, I just stumbled upon this article. Dan ...
Regarding those terrible experiments with laboratory mice: It seems like we humans sometimes lack the very empathy that we humans are so proud of having!...
Side note: This discovery has to do with "junk DNA" (non-protein- coding DNA - referred to at the end of the article as the "the functional non-coding 'dark...
August 16, 2006 The Associated Press is reporting the discovery of a strange 'Hybrid Mutant' creature in Maine. The animal, described as a 40 and 50 pound...
April 5, 2006 The newly discovered species of rodent found in a marketplace in Central Laos turns out to not be so new or so rare after all. The Laotian rock...
Marcos Wild Boy What if a 1875 report of a hairy "Wild Boy" from the Philippines was a record of contact with an adult hairy little person related to the...
This article appears to be ultimately meaningless, lacking any mention of new data or new insight, and merely repeating some of the same old claims made by...
FYI: Prof. Henneberg has informed me, in the Paleoanthro group, that this article (as poor as it is) was breaking a publication embargo. In other words, the...
I find pronouncements like this to be absolutely amazing, not to mention, unwarranted. If they can show us examples of H sapiens that look like H floresiensis...
Another thought, regarding hybridization and observed affinities: An earlier hominid radiation (or radiations,) whether of australopiths, erectines, sapiens...
While searching for the prematurely reported "hobbits were sick humans" article in the current issue of PNAS, I failed to find that (perhaps the publication ...
Note the amusing subtitle. :-) Dan http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1268552,00.html The Hobbit Wars Heat Up A debate on whether the Flores bones...