Posted on 12/02/2013 7:33:22 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
bad date last night, eh?
This is like the 100th thread on this subject that has been posted here on FR.
And it just keeps getting funnier every time.
Yeah, but the artwork keeps getting better every thread.
Ok. We'll go with that.
On the authority granted to me by the infallible Word of God I hereby proclaim and affirm that Dr. McCarthy is a certified fool.
All men are pigs and a lot of gals just look like monkeys.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
All men are pigs and a lot of gals just look like monkeys.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Was George Orwell aware of this?
This is not science. Dr McCarthy is an idiot.
This is not science. Dr McCarthy is an idiot.
The Aquatic Ape theory is a far far better explanation concerning our human features...
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.’
For a gene ticist this guy is sure retarded, the modern pig came from humans breeding wild pigs which have less of the charactertistics that this guy is citing....
So in his addled mind, humans came from pigs.... which had to be domesticated FIRST... then bred to apes, but how could they be domesticated first if humans didn;t exist first....
Unless he is sthrowing time travel into the equations....
The Aquatic Ape theory looks perfectly SANE compared to this morons ramblings...
Even assuming the idea that haploid gametes from entirely different geneses could create a diploid cell the resulting cell replication would induce anueploidy which would either be lethal or carcinogenic. Not to mention the bizarre recombination of genes. I suspect this guy has made a drunken leap into stupidity in a manner similar to evolutionists. Perhaps he just saw an old Seinfeld re-run.
Certain processes and history are assumed,
therefore any evidence, through that lens of assumption,
will affirm those assumptions.
--yeah--right up there with a Russian named Lysenko---
LOL that’s what I was thinking.
Amen - aquatic ape theory is fascinating.
It actually makes more sense than the trees to savannah theory. Because if we went from the trees to the savannah we would end up looking more like this...
Hey, don’t hate on the female chimpanzees. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference. :)
Wonder what muslims would think of this?
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