Alex
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thx for this MB... and for the email. my big takeaway from this was that hybridization in nature is much more commonplace than we generally accept. is this correct? what else compliments/contradicts Bruce's theory?I listened to your conversation with Bruce Fenton with interest. To pursue a more biologically based theory of human hybridization I suggest you explore the work of Dr Eugene McCarthy.
Dr Eugene M. McCarthy at macroevolution.net is a PhD geneticist. He is the author of Avian Hybrids of the World. He is an expert in vertebrate hybridization.
On his website he has a PDF copy of his second book, On the Origins of New Forms of Life A New Theory in which he discusses his hypothesis of pig/chimp hybridization in great detail as the origin of human beings.
My undergraduate degree was in anthropology; primate development and comparative anatomy were a part of the curriculum. Similarities between humans and other primates were discussed. There was little discussion of some of the great differences. McCarthy very clearly discusses human differences from other primates in a way ignored in physical anthropology but very clearly implicates hybridization with pigs.
I suggest that his work complements Fenton’s in an interesting way.
Michael Beal