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Re: Question for Jim and others, “Yes or No, does the bear ever go away?”
« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2007, 07:23:33 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear - Universal Knowledge Repository.

"According to both fossil and DNA evidence, the polar bear diverged from the brown bear roughly 200 thousand years ago" - Polar evolved from brown, so pretty closely related.

DNA evidence is a newish technology, and the best guess for divergence dates of major groups of mammals has to my knowledge changed three or four times in the last ten to fifteen years; I could probably dig up some of the relevant Nature papers if anyone cared enough.
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Re: Question for Jim and others, “Yes or No, does the bear ever go away?”
« Reply #31 on: October 23, 2007, 07:24:38 PM »
And why worry about war and genocide? We can just breed more human beings from apes.

Can we start with bonobos next time ? Sex rather than violence as preferred means of conflict resolution seems to lead to a more pleasant world in several ways.
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Re: Question for Jim and others, “Yes or No, does the bear ever go away?”
« Reply #32 on: October 23, 2007, 07:49:48 PM »
Can we start with bonobos next time ? Sex rather than violence as preferred means of conflict resolution seems to lead to a more pleasant world in several ways.

Meh. Omnisexuality as a practice never appealed to me. ;D
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Re: Question for Jim and others, “Yes or No, does the bear ever go away?”
« Reply #33 on: October 23, 2007, 08:23:37 PM »
After having deeply researched the Bonobos (on Wiki  :D)  I vote HERE< HERE for the Bonobos and their lifestyle.  Given my deep research, I do not agree on their aggression or that they are anything like the traditional Chimpanse. Their good natural sense & their matriarchal society appeals to the woman in me.  Make love not war!   
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