From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 04:02:37 EST
Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> . . . . As I recall, dogs
> have had the curious ability to remain
> interfertile: any wolf with any domestic dog with
> any wild dog. (Kind of defeats the premise behind
> "species", but there you have it.) . . .
Or else those species are too narrowly defined.
> I am unsure about any
> attempts to cross a human with a near relative,
> but am pretty sure such a union would be
> infertile.
I've heard (on the Net so it must be true) that a human-chimpanzee cross
would die early in gestation because of some major inversions, i.e.
stretches of DNA which flipped over at some fork of the family tree.
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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