The New York Times reported yesterday that

The split between the human and chimpanzee lineages, a pivotal event in human evolution, may have occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may not have been as clean as humans might like.

A new comparison of the human and chimp genomes suggests that after the two lineages separated, they may have begun interbreeding.

And while I know Bush-as-chimp jokes are so old hat that you haven’t heard one since you fell off your language poet, you really have to wonder…