Chromosome Fusion in Humans - or Not?

That’s just so obviously wrong. Please consider the context that, if humans are to share common ancestry with our closest primate relatives, given that we do not have equal numbers of chromosomes, the hypothesis of common ancestry demands that either we or our closest relatives must have evolved a different number of chromosomes.

Given that humans stand out from the rest by having fewer chromosomes, the most probable explanation is that humans must have somehow evolved fewer chromosomes after we split off from the most recent common ancestor shared with chimpanzees. One way this can happen is by chromosomal fusion. A chromosomal fusion is thus a prediction of common ancestry, and that is what we find.

Do you understand this argument? Not believe, or accept, but do you at least understand it?

There is a hypothesis that demands a particular thing to have happened in order to make sense of the data. The creationism hypothesis does not demand that ancestral humans started out with 48 chromosomes like other apes, we could have been created with 46.

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