Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Minireview cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: ‘Chumanzee’ evolution: the urge to diverge and merge. | Minireview Chumanzee evolution the urge to diverge and merge Todd R Disotell Address Center for the Study of Human Origins Department of Anthropology New York University Waverly Place New York NY 10003 USA. Email Published 24 November 2006 Genome Biology 2006 7 240 doi gb-2006-7-ll-240 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2006 7 ll 240 2006 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract A recent analysis of the human and chimpanzee genomes compared with portions of other primate genomes suggests that the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages beginning around 6 million years ago was not a simple clean split. The popular and scientific press gave extensive coverage to the recent analysis by Patterson et al. 1 of the human and chimpanzee genomes in which they conclude that after initially splitting our lineage continued to hybridize with chimpanzees for more than a million years. While the Washington Post noted that Human ancestors may have interbred with chimpanzees 2 asked more bluntly Did humans mate with chimps And are we their offspring 3 . Given the extraordinary similarity of the chimpanzee and human genomes scientists and the public alike have often asked such questions. An extensive review of the literature has yet to turn up a credible report of such crosses. In the 1920s a Soviet scientist Il ya Ivanovich Ivanov with the assistance of the Institut Pasteur at one of their field stations in French Guinea unsuccessfully artificially inseminated three chimpanzees with human sperm 4 . He then tried to continue his experiments at the primate center at Sukhum in the then Soviet Republic of Georgia where he intended to artificially inseminate human volunteers with ape sperm. He was arrested by the Soviet secret police on charges unrelated to this project and was never able to carry it out 4 . Through their own sequencing efforts and data mining Patterson et al. 1
