18 May 2006
you naughty monkey...
with only firelight and primitive wheels to amuse yourself, you just would, wouldn't you?
Obviously the news that our two sets of ancestors may have interbred many thousands of years after first parting company fills me with a kind of genomic glee...
Commenting on the research, Daniel Lieberman, a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard, told the Associated Press: "It's a totally cool and extremely clever analysis.
"My problem is imagining what it would be like to have a bipedal hominid and a chimpanzee viewing each other as appropriate mates, not to put it too crudely."
I know the answer! ages ago, I asked a select few people of both m and f persuasion to say whether (if forced!) they would sleep with monkeys or robots. Men said robots whilst women almost universally said 'monkeys'. I think it's safe to say that we know which hominids did the wild thing with the funny-lookin' furry fella....
