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humans closest living relative apes/pigs?

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molbiogirl
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01-17-2008 7:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by LouieP
01-17-2008 6:53 PM

Which is it, if either, and if it is not the pig why does it seem that pigs are the animals of choice for human heart transplants?
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Pig hearts are closest re: size and output. But pigs aren't the only animal donors. A chimp to human transplant was completed in 1964. (It was unsuccessful -- chimp hearts are too small.)
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Most human heart transplants, however, are from human donors. And by most, I mean 99.99%.
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A doctor in India got caught using pig hearts in 1997. He was arrested and jailed. Nature. 1997 Jan 30;385(6615):378.
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i believe that our closest living relative based on genetics is the ape is this correct? i also have heard that it may be the pig.
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Scientists Decipher Genetic Sequence of Chimpanzee, Closest Relative of Human Beings
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If I may, Louie, both of your questions are SO easily answered via google. Is there any particular reason you chose to ask them here rather than look for the answer yourself?
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molbiogirl
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01-17-2008 8:40 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by anglagard
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Re: Just a Caution
I have been researching vestigial muscles lately and half the web pages on Google are some rant about how there are no vestigial structures. It is the same experience I often have when researching other creo buzzwords, like radioisotope dating or physical anthropology. Just going to Google, without evaluating the quality of the source for reliable information is even worse than taking Wikipedia as an infallible oracle.
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Oh, I hear you, Angla. Lawdy. Some topics simply cannot be researched on google. Can NOT. I gave up on trying to find a definition for "human" after page after page of creo garbage.
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One alternative is scholar.google. Yeah, you get a bunch of science papers, but at least you can be sure of their credibility.
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molbiogirl
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01-17-2008 10:49 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Taz
01-17-2008 10:07 PM

Yo, Taz. Chill.
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