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Chimps Belong in Human Genus?
Bradley Chapman writes "I found this interesting story from Discovery News about our ties with chimpanzees. Excerpts: 'Chimpanzees share 99.4 percent of functionally important DNA with humans and belong in our genus, Homo, according to a recent genetic study.
Scientists analyzed 97 human genes, along with comparable sequences from chimps, gorillas, orangutans and Old World monkeys (a group that includes baboons and macaques). The researchers then took the DNA data and estimated genetic evolution over time. They determined that humans and chimps shared a common ancestor between 4 and 7 million years ago. That ancestor diverged from gorillas 6 to 7 million years ago.'" Genus is the next step up from species, if you recall your taxonomy. Humans are the only living species in genus homo, currently.
So, does this mean they have to pay royalties to the chimp who played Lancelot Link?
They can't be classed as human until one of them has there own talk show!
Oh, wait... nevermind.
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> The repulicans will like this... Another 50 million that pay taxes
Flamebait, Democrats are more likely to raise/create new taxes. Well, at least according to the ideologies of the parties. In reality, they all raise taxes too much and/or don't lower them enough.
Well I'm so glad that we narrowed it down to oh, say, several million years ago give or take that we "evolved" and became slightly different than a chimpanzee. Shit, even a cow must somehow share a genetic link to us in the way back past, right? You know, just after the Big Bang (well, several billion years after it of course) when all was warm, and life got created in a single instance, spawning a plethora of life-forms.
So I guess we shouldn't be eating any more monkey brain, those damn African savages! The horror! Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!!
Oh, by the way, put down that McDonald's hamburger, you're eating your relatives!!!
And don't think plants are exempt!! They're just another offshoot of "life", and we certainly wouldn't want to be extinguishing a life-form, now would we?
No no, the Republicans will just declare a War on Chimpanzees, which will take billions of dollars to wage.
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> I make 50k/year. I'm not rich
Shit, compared to me and almost every other person that lives in this town, you are. But still, I agree on the point.
I agree with what you said, but the only way to make liberals understand that someone who doesn't pay taxes is not going to get back more money than someone who pays >40,000 in taxes is to propose a flat tax. In my opinion that is the ONLY way that EVERYONE will understand the tax system, AND it would make it VERY difficult for the liberals to try and raise taxes. This would of course have to be passed with a balanced budget amendment to the constitution.
I don't think that this will happen, but it would be great. I would propose a national sales tax.
However, you would have to grandfather in a lot of senior citizens, with some type of tax break. That way the "richer" who buy more expensive stuff would in a sense be paying more taxes.
Ah but if they did that then they couldn't try and force Americans to do what the governemnt wants (i.e. gas taxes and such).
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