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Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle 648

killproc writes "A new report suggests that interbreeding between humans and chimpanzees happened a lot more recently than was previously thought. The report, published in the most recent issue of the journal Nature, estimates that final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago."

Comment Re:Not optic nerve. (Score 1) 354

In a medical sense, the optic nerve terminates near the front of the brain, at the optic chiasm. The nerve's fibers kinda cross over here, to help with perception of the picture you see. They carry on to the back of the brain and to the Visual cortex. I presume this is where the electrodes were implanted.

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