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Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blame-killproc-for-the-title dept.

killproc writes "A new report suggests that interbreeding between humans and chimpanzees happened a lot more recently than was previously thought. The report, published in the most recent issue of the journal Nature, estimates that final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago."

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  1. Get your hands off me by ettlz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you damn dirty ape!

  2. Big deal by manifoldronin · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The report, published in the most recent issue of the journal Nature, estimates that final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.
    Come back after you pushed it down to 5.4 years ago!
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  3. So by OSS_ilation · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... what was it that I hooked up with after a particularly drunken in college a few years back?

  4. Or, in some parts of California... by adrianbaugh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    5.4 minutes ago :-P

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