Some people preferred to give the carcass a cryptozoological origin story, due to the animal’s likeness to a legendary creature called Altamaha-ha, which is Georgia’s riff on the Loch Ness monster. The resemblance to the cryptid has resulted in experts cautioning that the whole thing could have been a hoax.
Source: vice.com
That’s according to a new research paperthat argues for a new way of thinking about our phone addiction. The authors claim that hundreds of thousands of years of evolution made us social in order to survive–and social media simply is driving this deeply ingrained human behavior into overdrive. This isn’t actually all that bad, they say, if you follow two basic rules.
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It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a human being and a chimpanzee could be produced in a laboratory. After all, human and chimp (or bonobo) share, by most estimates, roughly 99 percent of their nuclear DNA. Granted this 1 percent difference presumably involves some key alleles, the newgene-editing tool CRISPR offers the prospect (for some, the nightmare) of adding and deleting targeted genes as desired.
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