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Scientist claims human-chimpanzee hybrid born in Florida lab century ago
- dang 9y agoThis story was heavily flagged, but unless I'm missing something, the content is solid. It's an interview with a major scientist. The tabloid site isn't great, of course, but that's not how we evaluate articles here I'm going to turn off the flags. All: if you comment on a sensational story like this, please take extra care to make your comment substantive.
- acct1771 9y agoMuch appreciated. The trope of tabloids publishing more striking truth than "mainstream" from Men in Black is more true than you'd believe...
- dang 9y agoAlas it only happens often enough to invalidate any generalization. But if you know of other specific examples it would be interesting to see them.
- bcaulfield 9y agoThe National Enquirer broke the John Edwards love child scandal. https://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/how-enquirer-broke-john-edwards-love-child-scandal/ https://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/how-enquirer-broke-j...
- londons_explore 9y agoIt would be good to have other sources for this claim. Claiming something happened 100 years ago and hasn't surfaced till now is a tricky claim to substantiate, and certainly needs more than what this article presents which really amounts to not much more than hearsay.
- credit_guy 9y agoIn addition to this, chimps have 48 chromozomes and humans 46.
- mrob 9y agoHorses have 64 chromosomes, and donkeys have 62, but they can still produce mules.