Ethics, genetics, & relationship of pigs to humans BALTIMORE, Maryland––The world’s first pig-to-human heart transplant, performed on January 7, 2022 at the University of Maryland Medical Center, may or may not extend the life of transplant recipient David Bennett, 57. Certainly it shortened the life of the pig, trucked five hours from a company […]
Human Origins: Are we hybrids?
by Eugene McCarthy Free download from: http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html#.Ud5d8GSgn6k Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Recalling my April 2012 review of evolutionary geneticist Eugene McCarthy’s provocative opus On the Origins of New Forms of Life: A New Theory, British reader Mervyn Sanders wrote recently to mention that “Dr. McCarthy is now claiming that humans are a hybrid of chimp […]
On the Origins of New Forms of Life: A New Theory
by Eugene McCarthy Free download from: http://www.macroevolution.net Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Several years ago in an article about pangolins I transiently mentioned the argument of evolutionary geneticist Gene McCarthy that pangolins and armadillos might be living descendants of stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, two related dinosaur families whom McCarthy contends were synapsid proto-mammals, not reptiles. McCarthy also contends […]