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To: geode00 who wrote (219762)	2/20/2007 1:01:49 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Wrong...

To: geode00 who wrote (219762)	2/20/2007 5:48:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Geode, you are being pedantic. Because some infantile types play with words to "win" an argument, I often use the word "chimpoid", to differentiate from "chimps". I'm sure you know that I know that humans didn't descend from now-living chimpanzees. Nor those from 100 years ago. Nor 1000 years ago. Nor 300,000 years ago [though before that I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of hanky panky hybridization going on and some hybrids have been suggested recently]. Chimps from 10,000 years ago are not chimps in that there would have been genetic shift by usual processes, as there has been in humans. But for my purposes "chimp" is a useful enough word to describe what I mean, and so is "human". Yes, humans were once upon a time chimps and now we are human. Chimps were once upon a time chimps too, but they are still chimps. You might like to compare bonobos, chimps, gorillas, orangutans and humans. Can you see that there is a similarity between the hairier members of that primate tribe which humans don't have? I'm sure you can. But we definitely are more like chimps than any of the others, genetically. So, perhaps you can figure out that we were most like chimps than the rest. By "we", I don't literally mean you and me, which I suppose you think I mean given your mistaken thinking that "we" descended from chimps as they are today. Now, as part of your remedial reading lessons, go back and try again, moving lips and finger, to see if you can get full meaning rather than get hung up on pedantry. The point was, you could make chimps out of the existing human gene pool. Mqurice