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Article #545Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
From: Robert Reimann
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1987 18:11
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1987 18:11
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In article <10107@sci.UUCP>, daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel) writes: > > I remember > that humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees all seem to be about equidistant from > some common ancestor on the evolutionary tree--that gorillas are as closely > related to man as they are to chimpanzees; ditto with chimps. > This was a matter of contention until recent comparisions of human, chimp, and gorilla DNA showed that gorillas were closer, as in the diagram below. If I remember correctly, the point where the gorilla/human ancestor split from chimps is not very far from the point where gorilla and human lines split. ------- chimps | ------- ---- gorillas | | ---- | ---- humans Robert Reimann.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!sun!amdcad!ames!sgi!rmr From: rmr@chefchu.SGI.COM (Robert Reimann) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,soc.women Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor Message-ID: <7034@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 14:11:48 EDT Article-I.D.: sgi.7034 Posted: Mon Oct 19 14:11:48 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 20:48:29 EDT References: <894@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1248@bsu-cs.UUCP> <548@bucket.UUCP> <10107@sci.UUCP> Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 Keywords: Eve?