I really don't see where you're coming from at all. Because we had people using fake science in order to make money it discredits Darwin's life work? I really don't get this at all. As far as I know (I could be VERY wrong here) the majority of that took place in America (Again sorry if I'm wrong about this), but either way it's not like those were in the Galapagos islands.
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Originally Posted by Margar
think of it like this:
today we have many many species of birds. Now only same species of birds can reproduce with eachother. Likewise, I can't go screw a monkey and have a monkey/human baby (or hell, maybe I could, who knows? who has REALLY tested that?- don't answer that. i don't think I want to know!).
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I recently watched a documentary called Humanzee which looked at the possibility of cross breeding a human being and a chimpanzee. From what I gathered from it, this is scientifically possible due to the fact we are 98% similar to chimpanzees (some have even claimed it has been done, and the offspring killed within days, but this cannot be proven), but due to moral and ethical reasons, the likelyhood of this actually taking place is slim.
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but all birds share a common ancestor species, right? or a small few original avian species evolved into the THOUSANDS of bird species we have today. same with monkeys and men. we share a common ancestor (theoretically).
when you hear people talk about the "missing link" they're referring to that ancestor from which monkeys and humans both came. Some people believe lucy (an ancient hominid skeleton found) to be a link, and I think there may be others, but there just isn't enough evidence to say for sure.
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Oh, there's many others. I'm sorry but I'm not very knowledgable on this subject, and I really don't know all that much about hominids, but I know that lucy is nowhere near the oldest or the most likely candidate for a 'missing link'
List of human evolution fossils - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You might want to ask someone with more knowledge for better information.
I really don't think any scientist nowadays still think that man evolved from MONKEYS, but rather, the apes and humans share a common "linking" ancestor (which I suppose you could call a monkey, but at such a primitive stage, you'd be better off just to call it a homo-whatever)[/quote]The great apes all have 48 chromosomes, and humans have 46. Since we don't just lose chromosomes, the way to explain how we could be related to these animals and have 46 chromosomes would be that a pair of our chromosomes somewhere along the line fused. And we did find that that indeed happen with Chromosome #2 I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject, and the clearest explanation I can find is on wikipedia, which I guess isn't very credible, but here:
Chromosome 2 (human - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)