'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig'

dailymail.co.uk ^ | UPDATED: 05:49 EST, 30 November 2013 | DAMIEN GAYLE

[massmike]

The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested.

The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the worlds leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.

He points out that while humans have many features in common with chimps, we also have a large number of distinguishing characteristics not found in any other primates.

Dr McCarthy says these divergent characteristics are most likely the result of a hybrid origin at some point far back in human evolutionary history.

What's more, he suggests, there is one animal that has all of the traits which distinguish humans from our primate cousins in the animal kingdom.

'What is this other animal that has all these traits?' he asks rhetorically. 'The answer is Sus scrofa, the ordinary pig.'

Dr McCarthy elaborates his astonishing hypothesis in an article on Macroevolution.net, a website he curates. He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis, but he presents compelling evidence to support it.

[massmike]

Full title:

'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig': Extraordinary claim made by American geneticist

[Wolfie]

That must have been some closing time.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

This explains Debbie Wasserman-Schultz...

[BenLurkin]

And here's proof...

[Procyon]

I assume the pig was the father.

[massmike]

I was expecting Michelle Obama to be the People’s First Choice,but I like your guess,too!

[Miles the Slasher]

Might explain why women sometimes refer to men as “pigs.”

Who knew.

[Vaquero]

super serial.....excelsior!

[Alex Murphy]

The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested. The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the worlds leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.

When did bear DNA get introduced?

[Resolute Conservative]

Kramer has a ride for it.

[massmike]

He's dead wrong and I've got the proof --

[Army Air Corps]

Wait, didn’t some Mohammedan make this same claim about “Da Joos”?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

HOGWASH!!!

[Kartographer]

Yep you got it right I believe it was the other way around! Would be the first time some ape woke up to a pig in his bed!

[drpix]

[Tenacious 1]

This is old news now. LOL

[MarineBrat]

[Vaquero]

This explains Debbie Wasserman-Schwein

[ReaganÜberAlles]

"Pigman baby pigman!"

[alloysteel]

Setting aside the genetic incompatibilities (chromosome number and disparities in the matchup) how would this physical consummation actually take place? The anatomical differences alone make even the most imaginative configuration highly unlikely, if not altogether impossible.

There may, in fact, be a certain combination of genetic material between a high order of ape (not necessarily a chimpanzee) and some species of swine, but my contention is that it was done by an extraterrestrial visitor, a theory that seems to prevail at the studios of the creators of South Park.