{"id":29869,"date":"2012-08-16T22:42:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/of-chromosome-counts-and-near-extinction.html"},"modified":"2012-08-16T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:42:42","slug":"of-chromosome-counts-and-near-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/of-chromosome-counts-and-near-extinction.html","title":{"rendered":"Of chromosome counts and near-extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some fascinating info here on why humans have different chromosomal counts than our primate relatives … and what that says about our narrow scrape with survival some time in the past.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Chromosomal Evidence That Mankind Nearly Went Extinct<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHumans have 46 chromosomes. Our closest primate relatives have 48. So where did those extra two disappear to? Counting chromosomes was surprisingly tricky for most of the 20th century. Except for cert…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Some fascinating info here on why humans have different chromosomal counts than our primate relatives … and what that says about our narrow scrape with survival some time in the past. Embedded Link The Chromosomal Evidence That Mankind Nearly Went Extinct Humans have 46 chromosomes. Our closest primate relatives have 48. 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