Re: Common Descent: From Monkey To Man

From: Denyse O'Leary (oleary@sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 17:00:13 EDT

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    Josh Bembenek wrote:
    > In the interest of being open-minded about the common descent issue,
    > here is a considerably problematic article for the idea that man did not
    > descend from monkeys. I can find no alternate explanation, nor have I
    > critically analyzed the data. Any comments?
    >
    >
    > "Chromosomal Speciation and Molecular Divergence- Accelerated Evolution
    > in Rearranged Chromosomes." Navarro, A. and Barton NH. Science 300,
    > p321-324.
    >
    > Abstract:
    > Humans and their closest evolutionary relatives, the chimpanzees, differ
    > in ~1.24% of their genomic DNA sequences.

    Well, if that's true, it only shows what a difference 1.24% can make.

    (Ain't nobody out there who doesn't know the difference.)

    Here's a story you might want to check out:

    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992833

    The difference could be more than you think, depending on what you
    choose to COUNT as a difference.

    Denyse
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