Newspaper articles of interest:


“The Oregonian” - 6/8/06

Researchers have discovered a case of island dwarfism which happens when big species shrink over time when they find themselves on an island. Dinosaur and elephant fossils have been found supporting this discovery. Could this affect humans and could it mean people in Hawaii are shrinking . . . and would they be aware of it?





“The Oregonian” - 5/18/06

Headline over an article stated: “Humans, chimps may have swung together twice.”
The article goes on to suggest that after studying DNA from chimps, gorillas and humans, there is possible evidence of interspecies sex. This is from MIT and Harvard. “Interspecies sex” sounds like something out of a really, really bad porn movie. The article states we were “mixing it up” with the chimps until possibly 5 or 6 million years ago.

Does this mean that now when we shake our family tree, a chimp might fall out?