Gene McCarthy, PhD Genetics. Author of Telenothians: An Inquiry into the Limits of Hybridization (https://nitter.cf/t.co/B8VI96zSGs) & Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World
Athens, GA, USA
Joined December 2011
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Over my lifetime I've managed to step over a threshold into a realm unknown to other human beings (and previously to myself). But I'm not sure how many other people will want to hear about it. In this case, the truth is taboo. tinyurl.com/373h9su7
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This is perhaps the best podcast-style summary of my theory of human origins, etc., that I've ever heard. Incredibly succinct and surprisingly accurate. Check it out! drive.google.com/file/d/1xno…
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Sir, I just wanted to say I'm a big devotee of your work. I'm currently writing a book that mentions your research several times in the course of it. I'll pass along a copy when it's published.
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The new tools used to check the hypothesis give results that potentially explain a good part of the various anomalous segments in highly conserved DNA that we have discussed. I don't think consensus thinkers (or the wider public) will like the implications!
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I think you might appreciate listening to this mind-blowing overview of the controversial pig-human hybrid ancestor research study @ejhong
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Yeah. I liked it, too. A friend of mine fed some of my work into Gemini notebook and that was the result. Surprising!
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"The hybrids are larger (up to 2.3m at hump and weighing 900-1000kg), more tolerant and easier to work than either parent. They also mature faster."
macroevolution.net/bactrian-…
curtesy of @Macroevo
Hi. This is just a note to say that I enjoyed reading your new preprint ("Spatial overlap and phenotypic similarity predict hybridisation in birds"). And thanks for citing me (McCarthy 2006) so extensively there! If you have questions relating to your paper, just let me know. 😎
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The perilanner is a falcon bred from a cross between a peregrine and a lanner. This hybrid has an even faster air velocity than a peregrine, making it the fastest creature in the world. As a rule, the peregrine is the father and the lanner is the mother.
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I've been working on the cat-dog hybrids page today.
macroevolution.net/cat-dog-h…
Clearly, the stereotype of mutual hostility that these animals have been saddled with does not always apply!
Here are some old photos of a cat-dog from Journal of Genetics:
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"Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. It's easier that way."
--A comment by the "Commoner" (played by Kichijirō Ueda) in Kirasawa's Rashomon.
This human tendency is, I think, a major obstacle to the study of evolution.
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If nothing else, the Nancy Friday is no longer the entrance to the weekend rather than the entire month. Telenothians by Eugene m McCarthy, PhD (@Macroevo ) is a compilation of innumerable cross-breedings of great distances, a fortean collection of infidelity
A hybrid Musk Lorikeet x Rainbow Lorikeet at Mt. Nelson, Tasmania (Woehler 2018). tinyurl.com/4bwzrwjh
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Humanity is a principal inherited genome; Neanderthal/Denisovan introgression; ancient retroviral introgression; active transposable elements; mitochondria descending from endosymbiosis; microbiomical bottom-up invasion; and persistent microchimeric cells from relatives across generations
This is how @Macroevo reached his conclusions. He investigated each of these things to some degree, publishing his findings, before going to his current direction.
This is perhaps the best podcast-style summary of my theory of human origins, etc., that I've ever heard. Incredibly succinct and surprisingly accurate. Check it out! drive.google.com/file/d/1xno…
I've been working on the cat-dog hybrids page today.
macroevolution.net/cat-dog-h…
Clearly, the stereotype of mutual hostility that these animals have been saddled with does not always apply!
Here are some old photos of a cat-dog from Journal of Genetics:
"Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. It's easier that way."
--A comment by the "Commoner" (played by Kichijirō Ueda) in Kirasawa's Rashomon.
This human tendency is, I think, a major obstacle to the study of evolution.
Recently, a fan emailed me to say this:
"Your theory is the best thing I've ever read!" 😎
Read these and judge for yourself:
How evolution happens
tinyurl.com/3cwtwf2r
Where we came from
tinyurl.com/56y5788a
The limits of hybridization
tinyurl.com/32yn7udk
