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Boston scientists released a provocative report yesterday
\n that challenges the timeline of human evolution and suggests that human
\n ancestors bred with chimpanzee ancestors long after they had initially
\n separated into two species.<\/p>\n
The researchers, working at the Cambridge-based Broad Institute of Harvard
\n and MIT, used a wealth of newly available genetic data to estimate the
\n time when the first human ancestors split from the chimpanzees. The team
\n arrived at an answer that is at least 1 million years later than paleontologists
\n had believed, based on fossils of early, humanlike creatures.<\/p>\n
The lead scientist said that this jarring conflict with
\n the fossil record, combined with a number of other strange genetic patterns
\n the team uncovered, led him to a startling explanation: that human ancestors
\n evolved apart from the chimpanzees for hundreds of thousands of years,
\n and then started breeding with them again before a final break.<\/p>\n
”Something very unusual happened," said David Reich, one of the
\n report’s authors and a geneticist at the Broad and Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n
Not so unusual – as any experienced relationship counselor will testify, This research is sure to roil the already murky waters from the Boston scientists released a provocative report yesterday that challenges the timeline of human evolution and suggests that human ancestors bred with chimpanzee ancestors long after they had initially separated into two species. The researchers, working at the Cambridge-based Broad Institute … Continue reading
\n there is often a heartfelt attempt at reconcilliation before the final
\n break occurs – although it doesn’t usually last a couple of hundred thousand
\n years!<\/em><\/p>\n
\n surrounding the evolution debate. We can hear the religious right now
\n – "Heresy! Beastiality! Abomination!" At the same time, it may help explain
\n our attraction to hairy women….<\/em><\/p>\n
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