But... it is just a theory!

Pharyngula has it right, this Washington Post on evolutionary biology is how science journalism should be done!

Of course they never explain how it is really Her Noodly Appendages which reached into the chimp DNA, and, Just In Time, tweaked the mutation count. You don't know, it could have happened.

The Noodly Appendages are everywhere. Not an E. Coli fissions without The Pasta touching its meat.