Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]larry: Coudn't agree more. We seem to have, if anything, DE-volved. Compare the tenderness of of "other mammal species" with their young and each other as well as with us, if we behave ourselves around them for any span of time. It's from them that we stole the overused term, "unconditiional Love". Then look at the incredible, unforgivable mischief we have wrought on ourselves in the name of abstract concepts. Pick a war, follow the money, choose your chemical. I'd hang out with Koko and her crew any time. And, she shoots film - with an SLR, already! Who knew? Bob in Seattle On Dec 11, 2006, at 19:09, <larry.k@rcn.com> wrote: Chimps are our closest cousins: "A detailed analysis of human and chimp DNA suggests the lines finally diverged less than 5.4 million years ago. The finding, published in the journal Nature, is about 1-2 million years later than the fossils have indicated. A US team says its results hint at the possibility that interbreeding occurred between the two lines for thousands, even millions, of years. This hybridisation would have been important in swapping genes for traits that allowed the emerging species to survive in their environments, explain the scientists affiliated to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Harvard Medical School. . . . Humans and chimps contain DNA sequences that are very similar to each other; the differences are due to mutations, or errors, in the genetic code that have occurred since these animals diverged on to separate evolutionary paths." from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4991470.stm Now, I'll probably be shouted down by the anti-evolution people, but there you go, we have the fossil records indicating that we were linked. We still took the better path to central heating, computer networks, and uh, cameras! Regards, Larry K. not Z. K. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information