Divorce, early primate style.

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Seems that perhaps chimps and humans had a messy divorce. They kept getting back together for one more round..... even though they had both moved on and grown apart.

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The researchers hypothesize that an ancestral ape species split into two isolated populations about 10 million years ago, then got back together after a few thousand millennia. At that time the two groups, though somewhat genetically different, would have mated to form a third, hybrid population. That population could have interbred with one or both of its parent populations. Then, at some point after 6.3 million years ago, two distinct lines arose. CNN

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Cool!

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Hmmm.... maybe my analogy is bad.

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So, basically we were f*ck buddies for awhile.

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Maybe that is why the world is in the state that it is today. When you "monkey around", you are simply looking for trouble!

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Does this mean Noah put two of each genetically different ape / human / chimp/ etc. on the Ark?

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*plops down and waits for gunga*

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Wanna share this banana while we wait?

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dadpad wrote:

*plops down and waits for gunga*

plops down next to dadpad and offers some buttered popcorn

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Here squinny, you want some pop corn too?

there's plenty for everyone.

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Oh, no thanks. I was suddenly overcome with the desire for a banana.

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do you feel like flinging your sh!t around?

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Yum thanks chai

Bananas are $10.00aud ($7.00 usd) a kilo (2.2 pound) (are American pounds different to imperial) at the moment cause of the cyclones up north last month so have that yourself squinney.

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Was at the Zoo once't, when a mama gorilla pooped in her hand, and then ate it. That cleared the observation room right quick . . .

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Setanta wrote:

Was at the Zoo once't, when a mama gorilla pooped in her hand, and then ate it. That cleared the observation room right quick . . .

mmmmmrrrffff....want some popcorn set?

dadpad, poop into this separate bowl of popcorn so set can enjoy.

this bowl of popcorn will be special...for set only.

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dadpad wrote:

Yum thanks chai

Bananas are $10.00aud ($7.00 usd) a kilo (2.2 pound) (are American pounds different to imperial) at the moment cause of the cyclones up north last month so have that yourself squinney.

$7.00 us dollars for 2.2 pounds of bananas? Shocked

Bananas are 50 cents a pound here.

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This bowl looks very like a miners helmet so i'm rasonably comfortable with that idea chai

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/miners-tale-from-bowels-of-the-earth/2006/05/12/1146940735645.html

Beaconsfield Tasmania
THE first man to see the freed miners told yesterday how the two men had cuddled each other to stay warm and used a helmet as a toilet while trapped underground.

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Chai Tea wrote:

dadpad wrote:
Yum thanks chai

Bananas are $10.00aud ($7.00 usd) a kilo (2.2 pound) (are American pounds different to imperial) at the moment cause of the cyclones up north last month so have that yourself squinney.

$7.00 us dollars for 2.2 pounds of bananas?

Bananas are 50 cents a pound here.

we cant import from O/S because of the quarantine regulations so were not having bananananans at present

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The U.S. Standard pound is the same as Imperial. It's in measures of volume that Imperial and US Standard diverge. Six US Standard fluid ounces equal five Imperial fluid ounces.

I'm ignoring you Chai . . .

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Hmm. Does this mean that we're essentially a cross-species human/animal hybrid? Was this what Shrub was referring to in his last State of the Union message? Laughing

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Divorce, early primate style.

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