Daily Mail: Humans are chimp/pig hybrids!
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The Daily Fail has scored yet another notch in the "WTF?" category with this article:
'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig': Extraordinary claim made by American geneticist
- Dr Eugene McCarthy points to features that distinguish us from primates
- He says that the only animals which also have these features are pigs
- Controversial hypothesis has been met by significant opposition
(It's here, in case you're bored enough to read it...)
Just in case you were under any delusions that the DM was a serious newspaper (never mind that the biological impossibility of such a mating is compounded by the fact chimpanzees have 48 chromosomes, humans have 46 but pigs a mere 38)...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, while the top rated comments are mocking it, flick to the worst rated comments and you're greeted by Creationists.