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Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers believe that they have found the definitive difference between humans and other primates, and they think that the difference all comes down to a single gene."
After watching human beings for over 3 decades, that gene is rare. Very rare.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
You guys who constantly judge the actions of Christians of many years ago would do well to see how much worse the non-Christians were.
Right, I keep forgetting, crimes against humanity are justified if you can find a worse one that you can blame on someone else, my mistake.
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
From the point of view of the world outside America, Democrats are the missing link between humans and Republicans.
yeah, blacks
No. Racists: If ever there was a more ignorant, backward way of thinking than racism, it'd be done by something that lived in a slime mold at the bottom of a swamp. But then again, I think that I've just insulted things that live in slime molds.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Gorillas such as Koko, when taught sign language are scary smart, even without the gene.
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
The whole black people are monkeys thing is purely a US idiom. In the rest of the English-speaking world, there isn't that connotation and it's fairly common to call people (of any phenotype) monkeys with no racist overtones. That's part of the reason why the celebrity apes thing seemed so weird to the rest of us. It's not even universal in the USA. A lot of people called GWB a chimp, but there's no indication that anyone thought that he was black...
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