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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Maybe your name should be Bonzo and his should be William

It turns out that chimpanzees (clearly allied with our dolphin enemies) are the products of more evolution than humans. The sinister simmians have departed more on the genetic level from our most recent common ancestor than we have. In a sort of diagonal sense humans are the missing link in chimp evolution. Soon they will overrun our cities claiming their darwinian birth right by virtue of the savage law of the forrests we once shared. I for one am buying bananas and tire swings to use as a diversion.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Put a human and a chimpanzee side by side, and it seems obvious which lineage has changed the most since the two diverged from a common ancestor millions of years ago. Such apparent physical differences, along with human speech, language and brainpower, have led many people to believe that natural selection has acted in a positive manner on more genes in humans than in chimps. But new research at the University of Michigan challenges that human-centered view.

"We often think that we're unique and superior to other species, so there must be a lot of Darwinian selection behind our origin," said Jianzhi (George) Zhang, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. "However, we found that more genes have undergone positive selection in chimpanzee evolution than in human evolution."

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