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But how can it be that the gorilla father was

Feb. 28, 2018 by Carolyn Mueller

But how can it be that the gorilla father was so lucky?

This little known mystery is particularly telling in light of the fact that so many of our great ape families are not so lucky. There is no question that the vast majority of the genes in the gorilla genome have been passed on to us by our common ancestor.

This is not an odd or unusual event, but there are a number of mechanisms that seem to explain why this is so. In other words, the vast majority of DNA sequences for all of our great ape ancestors have been passed on to others.

In fact, some genes and genes that were taken from other ancestors, such as CRISPR and other gene therapy, have passed on to our modern ancestors, such as the DNA from our human ancestors, or even from our chimps or gorillas.

The most important of these mechanisms lies more in the process of evolution than in the process of evolution itself.

This may seem strange, but in the last century, some of the most important genes in evolution were passed on to our early ancestors. In fact, genes that arose in other chimps, chimps, and other primates are often passed on to the modern humans, rather than to our ancestors.