Evolution's human and chimp twist- May 20, 2006 Humans and chimpanzees may have split away from a common ancestor far more recently than was previously thought.A detailed analysis of human and chimp DNA suggests the lines finally diverged less than 5.4 million years ago. The finding, published in the journal Nature, is about 1-2 million years later than the fossils have indicated. A US team says its results hint at the possibility that interbreeding occurred between the two lines for thousands, even millions, of years. This hybridisation...http://www.frimlin.com/links/2006/05/evolutions-human-and-chimp-twist.php |