Link. [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0520_030520_chimpanzees.html]
I, for one, welcome our new Chimp relatives.
I, for one, welcome our new Chimp relatives.
Ah, the missing link [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0520_030520_chimpanzees.html]!GiantRaven said:Link. [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0520_030520_chimpanzees.html]
Clearly I am completely blind. >_<Valagetti said:Am I reading this wrong but was this posted in 2003? And this is old news anyway, irrelevant to the time stamp...
PG Tips?floppylobster said:... and they still invite us over for tea.
I don't know, removing Pluto's status as a planet was a clear loss, but gaining a fuckton of Chimp relatives is a clear gain in my eyes.Fanitullen said:You know how the astronomers decided to reclassify Pluto, so that it was no longer a planet? You know the uproar that caused?
I'm guessing the biologists looked at that incident and thought, "I want to be yelled at by angry people like that!"
I was gonna say... my biology teacher was trying to tell me that they believe humans, bonobos and chimps to be subspecies of each other (i.e. drastically different versions of the same species like dogs and wolves are)Valagetti said:Am I reading this wrong but was this posted in 2003? And this is old news anyway, irrelevant to the time stamp...