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Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Today is Friday, May 19, 2006.

This is your host, Stephen Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society.

With me today are Rebecca Watson, Bob Novella, Happy Randy Day, and Evan Bernstein.

Likewise.

And what Bob and Evan are referring to is the fact that coming up very shortly we have

our second interview with James Randy, so we'll get to that very quickly.

But first just a couple of quick news items.

The first which has been on all the news sites and even made Rebecca's blog is new evidence

comparing the human genome with the chimpanzee genome shows that for probably up to about

four million years after humans and chimpanzees split from their common ancestor, they were

still at least occasionally exchanging genes.

But Steve is trying to say is that they were hooking up with some hot sweet monkey action.

Why didn't you just say it that Steve?

Although they're not monkeys I have to point out.

Before don't email me we know they're not monkeys.

So they're also not humans and chimps either.

They are the ancestors of them.

But saying hot human monkey love is funny.

So we're going to go.

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