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Theirs was a fusion "unnatural", unusual for two reasons: the first is that it involves members not only of two different species, but also of two different genres - like a cross between a cat and a horse - the second it is because A. speltoides entirely donates its genome T. Urartu and not only half, as in a common sexual cross between members of the same species . The union was born the wild emmer or T. dicoccoides , a new species with double the parental chromosomes. They had two copies of each chromosome, just like us humans, that were diploid, while he has four copies of each chromosome, so it is "tetraploid". Abnormalities in the number of chromosomes in animals usually leads to death
originally posted by: underwerks
Theirs was a fusion "unnatural", unusual for two reasons: the first is that it involves members not only of two different species, but also of two different genres - like a cross between a cat and a horse - the second it is because A. speltoides entirely donates its genome T. Urartu and not only half, as in a common sexual cross between members of the same species . The union was born the wild emmer or T. dicoccoides , a new species with double the parental chromosomes. They had two copies of each chromosome, just like us humans, that were diploid, while he has four copies of each chromosome, so it is "tetraploid". Abnormalities in the number of chromosomes in animals usually leads to death
If this is true then this may be evidence of ancient genetic engineering.
originally posted by: Cocchino
a reply to: AdmireTheDistance
We do not know much about us humans, we are an anomaly. We are not fit for any environment and we have to change it to survive. Every place is hostile, we have no protections (flakes, hairs, claws ...) our physical strength has been reduced.
originally posted by: StanFL
a reply to: Cocchino
Why would any aliens want to bother with doing this? It is a huge cost to cross between stars, and then to just screw around with some genes in a plant or two and then leave? Makes no sense.
There is absolutely no value in humans to aliens. They would have mastered the genetics of how to make us and a million other species at their own home planet, so why bother to come here to affect us? Conceivably they would come here to colonize the planet, but then why not get rid of all the stuff here and put down their own optimized organisms? We need to shed the idea we are something special to anybody else in the galaxy. Better creatures than us would be easy for advanced aliens to make.