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Related: About this forumNo, Daily Mail: Humans did not come from outer space or from monkeys f*cking pigs
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/30/no-daily-mail-humans-did-not-come-from-outer-space-or-from-monkeys-fcking-pigs/No, Daily Mail: Humans did not come from outer space or from monkeys f*cking pigs
By Tony Ortega
Saturday, November 30, 2013 12:24 EST
For some reason, the Daily Mail in the last couple of weeks is doing its utmost to make two self-published fantasies by a couple of marginal cranks sound like legitimate dispatches from the world of science.
Well, its pretty obvious what the reason is. Pseudoscience sells.
The first salvo arrived on November 14, when a ludicrous self-published book with a cover that looks like it was made on MS Paint was treated like a startling new advance in biology. Humans are not from Earth was written, the Mail says, by a U.S. ecologist by the name of Ellis Silver.
Now, theres this stuff called DNA that we share with every other living thing on the planet which makes it pointless to examine the silly idea in this book that human beings were suddenly dropped off here from another solar system just a few tens of thousands of years ago. This theory is supported with an amateur scientists litany of puzzlements why do humans sunburn? Why do our backs seem so poorly adapted for the way we live? Why are the heads of babies so large and make childbirth so difficult? Its the usual stuff that sends your garden variety crank looking for spectacularly bad answers.
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No, Daily Mail: Humans did not come from outer space or from monkeys f*cking pigs (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Dec 2013
OP
There an excellent answer given to the chimps f*cking pigs hypothesis
Fortinbras Armstrong
Dec 2013
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1. Baby Monkey on a Pig?
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Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)3. There an excellent answer given to the chimps f*cking pigs hypothesis
Given by biologist P.Z. Myers here.
Among other things, he points out that pigs have 38 chromosomes, while chimps have 48. Can you say "incompatible", boys and girls? I knew you could.
Also, as the old joke goes, it's quite unlikely humans and farm animals could create hybrids. We would know by now, especially with some "lone farmer on a mountain" groups. Ah, Australia, where men are men and sheep are scared.