October 09, 2004

NEW Ape-Chimpanze SPECIES!

This is completely astounding, maybe the biggest naturalist discovery of your life - the BBC reports the discovery of a new species of giant ape - somewhere between apes and chimps.

But the gorillas supposedly diverged from chimps BEFORE chimps and humans diverged - meaning this throws a big wrench into current theories of human evolution, or strictly speaking, perhaps chimps and gorillas are NOT truly separate species. If not, that even suggests "Out of Africa is wrong" and Neanderthals, Sapiens have been gettin' it on too.

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