Wayne Hayes writes:
> The further away from our
> branch of the tree we get, the more lax we are about defining
> species. For example, we and the Chimps are a *lot* closer
> morphoplogically than some invertatrae that we call "sibling species";
> we're also closer than the horse and donkey, which can breed to
> produce a mule (or is horse+mule=donkey, whatever). The only thing
> stopping us from interbreeding with chimps to see if we're sibling
> species is that, right now, most people would be revulsed by the idea.
Does anyone know if this experiment has been tried? To bread a chimp with
humans would pose many ethical questions. But it could provide some answers
about many topics including evolution.
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Neal Norwitz
neal at tut.fi What have we learned?
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