<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Oliver wasdiscussed in the 3rd segment a bit. Dr. Gordon Gallup was in that program your also speaking about. Plus also, you are totally wrong about what you said about too different & impossible for it to work!!! <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />You are correct -- as far as science knows, it is not impossible. However, Oliver wasn't a humanzee (human/ape hybrid). I saw the program Odysseus is referring to. It was fascinating, and very well presented. You really got to know Oliver himself and care about him. It was a relief to know he is still being looked after. What they found was not that it's impossible for a humanzee to exist, but that his genetics didn't show a human lineage. Humans and chimps have different numbers of chromosomes, so his number should be offbalance if he's a hybrid. But they were consistent with him being pure chimp. But his genes still don't look quite chimp, and physically he does have a lot in common with humans. This led scientists to speculate that he might be something entirely different -- either the sole known representative of an undiscovered species of great apes, or a hybrid between a chimp and an undiscovered great ape species. Either way, he is remarkable. His kin have not been discovered, and it is possible that if he is something other than a chimp, he could be the only one of his kind left in the world. Habitat is being lost at an alarming rate, and the increasing demand for bushmeat (mainly due to the horrible poverty and chaos engulfing large parts of central Africa) is diminishing the numbers of great apes in the world.<br /><br />By the way, just as a little nitpick, nobody thinks Oliver was a chimera. They think he may be a hybrid. The difference is that hybrids are crossbreeds, while chimeras are cases where two (or more) organisms have actually grown together and become a single individual. The latter is extremely unlikely to occur between differen <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>