person7
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Message 19 of 83 (233328)
08-15-2005 4:25 AM
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I'm surprised no one mentioned this. Your infromation is far, far off. Chimps are apes, and chimps are much closer to Humans. The brain thing doesn't make sense. I beleive humans and chimps are 4 million years from each other, but I could be wrong (I read The Third Chimpanzee a few years back). A little while after we split one gene that controlled making the jaw bone extend turned off. This allowed our brain to grow simply, because there is more room. With a larger brain you can store more infromation, and about half our brain is for language, and that can easily evolve in four million years.
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person7
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Message 22 of 83 (234348)
08-18-2005 2:08 AM
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It was the turning off of a single gene. Intresting that we only have thirty thousand genes. According to Jared Daimond in the third chimpanzee we are only 4 million years off chimpanzees, the gene turning off happened after the split, because chimpanzees do not have that gene (well I should say they do have it because its us who doesn't have it).
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