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bburgoyne26
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 Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:09 Post subject: A new twist to Gallowalking......
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2072832,00.html
"Walking on all fours with the ancestors
By Sam Lister
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FIVE brothers and sisters who can only walk naturally on all fours are being hailed as a unique insight into human evolution, after being found in a remote corner of rural Turkey.
Scientists believe that the family may provide invaluable information on how Man evolved from a four-legged hominid to develop the ability to walk on two feet more than three million years ago.
A genetic abnormality, which may prevent the siblings, aged 18 to 34, from walking upright, has been identified.........
Professor Humphrey, who has been contributing to a BBC programme, The Family that Walks on All Fours, to be broadcast on March 17, said that weeks of study, and factors such as their hands’ shape and callouses, showed that this was a long-term pattern of behaviour and not a hoax. “However they arrived at this point, we have adult human beings walking like ancestors several million years ago,” he said.
The siblings, who live with their parents and 13 other brothers and sisters, are mentally retarded, as a result of a form of cerebellar ataxia — an underdevelopment of the brain similar to that in cystic fibrosis. Their mother and father, who are themselves closely related, are believed to have passed down a unique combination of genes resulting in the behaviour. While Professor Humphrey said that cultural influences in their upbringing may have played a crucial role, with parental tolerance allowing the children to keep to quadrupedal walking, others believe that the cause is more purely genetic.
Uner Tan, a professor of physiology at Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey, who first brought the family to the attention of scientists, argues that the gene mutations have made them regress to a “missing link” primate state, also explaining their severe problems with language. A team of German geneticists believes that the family holds the key to a breakthrough gene for bipedality."
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robp
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Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:11 Post subject:
This American redneck thinks they hold a key breakthrough gene to human stupidity.
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Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:12 Post subject:
I read about this earlier today - fascinating.
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Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:13 Post subject:
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bburgoyne26
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Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:15 Post subject:
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don't worry....it'll take em a long time to get to Cincy like that......
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j1miller
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Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:16 Post subject:
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don't worry....it'll take em a long time to get to Cincy like that...... |
God, I hope so!
They would suck hashing...
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bburgoyne26
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Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:22 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | bburgoyne26 wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | |
don't worry....it'll take em a long time to get to Cincy like that...... |
God, I hope so!
They would suck hashing... |
yabut, they could eat that funny chili/spaghetti right out of the bowl.......
(that was bad, wasn't it?.....even for me......  )
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j1miller
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Posted: 03/07/06 - 22:26 Post subject:
| bburgoyne26 wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | | bburgoyne26 wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | |
don't worry....it'll take em a long time to get to Cincy like that...... |
God, I hope so!
They would suck hashing... |
yabut, they could eat that funny chili/spaghetti right out of the bowl.......
(that was bad, wasn't it?.....even for me...... ) |
That's just freakish.
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Posted: 03/08/06 - 02:23 Post subject:
interesting
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Posted: 03/08/06 - 07:44 Post subject: Re: A new twist to Gallowalking......
| bburgoyne26 wrote: | http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2072832,00.html
......Their mother and father, who are themselves closely related, are believed to have passed down a unique combination of genes resulting in the behaviour. While Professor Humphrey said that cultural influences in their upbringing may have played a crucial role, with parental tolerance allowing the children to keep to quadrupedal walking, others believe that the cause is more purely genetic.........
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the closely related factor of the mother and father concerns me
and yeah, i tend to agree with those who say it's genetic. 
somebody get that mom "the patch"
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