I won't get lost in a clumsy introduction to it, so here is what drew my attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk
On request of our moderator, i will invite you to read instead of listening to a video from another site.
"The complete DNA sequence of one of those great apes, the chimpanzee, provides us with a remarkable new opportunity to answer a question that has fascinated people of every culture, of every place and time. Where did we come from?
We human beings carry our genetic information on 23 pairs of DNA-containing chromosomes. The great ape species, on the other hand, have 24 pairs. And there’s the mystery. How could we share a common ancestor with them if you and I are, quite literally, missing a chromosome? Where’d it go?
Well, if one thought that our genome was designed, as many Americans seem to, it wouldn’t have gone anywhere. If our DNA was the unique product of an intelligent designer, that fellow could simply have arranged our DNA in fewer packages than the apes, and since there is no real relationship between us and them, nothing would be missing.
But if a fellow named Charles Darwin was right, there is a relationship, a link, and the remnants of that missing chromosome have to be somewhere inside us. You couldn’t just throw a whole chromosome away, and therefore evolution makes a testable prediction. When we lay the human and chimpanzee genomes side by side, we’ve got to find a human chromosome constructed by sticking two chromosomes together from that common ancestor. And if we cannot find it, evolution is wrong. Well, guess what? It’s chromosome #2.
Our second chromosome was produced by the head to head fusion of ape chromosomes 12 and 13, and the new primate and human data show the exact point at which those two chromosomes were pasted together. No doubt about it — like a criminal at the scene of a crime, evolution left its messy fingerprints all over us — and we know where we came from."
These are not my words, but some have to come from somewhere sometimes. These are from Ken Miller. I hope i don't break another rule doing this. If so please don't take no offence, i'm still quite new to this forum in terms of practice.
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