Sperm may hold key to cancer, chimp study suggests

Reuters ^ | 5-19-05 | Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

[Pharmboy]

Truth always seems to be stranger than fiction...if this is indeed true. That's what I love about biology: its always got surprises for us. And sometimes, we're the surprise.

[mlc9852]

"The evolutionary path that separated humans from chimps 5 million years"

So this is now a given?

[Calpernia]

This is proof!

It is all MEN's fault!

[Rebel_Ace]

"...So this is now a given?..."

No. This is now a gibbon.

(Ya gotta love opportunities for ape jokes)

[montag813]

They're right...we are better off being Chimps.

[malia]

Interesting!!!!

What about diabetes and other diseases.

[ClearCase_guy]

An long-ago event somehow transformed us into Humans. No longer animals, but something more. Unfortunatley, there was a price to be paid. We were given awareness greater than any animal, knowing Good from Evil, cognizant of our own mortality, carrying the seeds of our our inevitable death, we dwell in a material world, longing for Freedom from Death.

[Hank Rearden]

Unfortunately, the missing link will prove to be Michael Jackson and his offspring Bubbles.

[Snoopers-868th]

A comparison of chimpanzee genes to human genes shows a concentration of genes unique to people in areas associated with sperm production and cancer, and suggests the changes that make humans unique also make us uniquely prone to cancer.

You mean I really am NOT a monkey?

[AntiGuv]

cancer ping!

[mlc9852]

LOL - I love primate (politically correct term) jokes!

[Luna]

LOL! Good one!

[mlc9852]

ROFL

[Strategerist]

So this is now a given?

Among the overwhelming majority of the scientific community, basically, yes, likely give or take a million years.

[Strategerist]

Humans did not descend from monkeys; there was a common monkey-ape-human ancestor, however.

99% of our genes and Chimp genes are the same; this study, however, concentrated on the ones that are in fact different.

[Hank Rearden]

Note the red lipstick on both simians.

Who would own crap like that, anyway?

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 280 names. See the list's description at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[King Prout]

thanks for the ping - the title caused me to snarf coffee. thanks.

[Vaquero]

"They're right...we are better off being Chimps. " Thats right sitting out in the hot African savana, waiting to get eaten by who knows what and whileing away the hours picking tasty ticks off the chimp next to you. What a life.

[EGPWS]

It is all MEN's fault!

Yes! And now that this determination has been made it is time to strategically eliminate the root cause.......

/s