> > From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/23 Mon AM 07:29:32 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PESO: Invitation to Hike > > You don't have to tell me what the point of the article was, I knew that > when I saw who published it. I > don't buy it. It's not genetics alone that defines a genus.
Genetics defines everything that is used to differentiate organisms. PETA has a > political agenda. Taking their article > as proof of anything is like taking the ravings of the Nazis as proof > that Jews Slavs and Gypsies are sub human. Eveyone has a political agenda. > > Oops, I just invoked the Nazi's I guess I lose. Then again I didn't > call anyone a Nazi so maybe I didn't. > > Bob W wrote: > > >The point being made in the article is that humans are more closely related > >to chimps than chimps are to gorillas and other apes. This means that the > >distinction between apes and humans is difficult to justify on rational > >grounds. Many animals which are not as closely related as chimps and humans > >are classified in the same genus. Applying the same taxonomic rules to > >humans and chimps should place us all in the same genus, and possibly also > >put gorillas in there. Given the rules of precedence the genus to which they > >should all be assigned is Homo. > > > >-- > >Cheers, > > Bob > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: P. J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: 23 May 2005 00:04 > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: Re: PESO: Invitation to Hike > >> > >>Chimps share something like 95+% of their DNA with humans. > >>Then again humans share 65% or thereabouts of their genetic > >>material with oak trees... > >> > >>Bob W wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>There is a succinct description of the genetic similarities here: > >>>http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/diamond01.htm > >>> > >>>which I think is extracted from the book. > >>> > >>>-- > >>>Cheers, > >>>Bob > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>Sent: 22 May 2005 23:48 > >>>>To: '[email protected]' > >>>>Subject: RE: PESO: Invitation to Hike > >>>> > >>>>Read this: > >>>>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060984031/102-4 > >>>>625644-4597749?v=glance > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>Cheers, > >>>>Bob > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>>From: Graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> > >>>>>Is it now? A chimpanzee could get a decent photo out of > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>14,000 shots. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>BTW, has anyone heard of DNA showing that humands are a > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>sub-species of > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Chimp? Came across it in a SF story and wonder if there was > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>any truth > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>to it or did the author make it up. > >>>>>Claim was that there is much more variation in chimp's DNA than > >>>>>human's, and that human DNA only varied by about three > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>strands from > >> > >> > >>>>>the chimp's. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>-- > >>A man's only as old as the woman he feels. > >> --Groucho Marx > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > A man's only as old as the woman he feels. > --Groucho Marx > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
