That rumor is starting to spread again: the one that says your uncle was a monkey (OK, chimpanzee) and your aunt was a … pig?
Or more likely, vice versa, claims geneticist and species-hybridization scholar Eugene McCarthy.
Earlier this summer, McCarthy publicized on his website Macroevolution.net the notion that humans evolved from a distant-history cross of chimp and swine. The theory popped up again in newspapers around the world over the Thanksgiving weekend, thanks to London’s Daily Mail, which resurrected the story Nov. 30....