From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 14:25:07 MDT
I'm not aware of any human-chimp crossbreeding projects. Are you?
--- Andrew Clough <aclough@mit.edu> wrote:
> correct me if I'm wrong, but don't members of the same genus have to
> be able to produce children together, like horses and donkeys? The
> offspring are sterile, of course, otherwise they would belong to
> the same species, but I'm pretty sure that half chimps can't be
> produced the "natural" way.
Part of the motivation for this proposed change is obviously in the
area of animal rights. Apparently the idea of 'social promotion' as
used in public schools to move substandard students along with their
peers, irrespective of their actual grades or aptitudes, has crossed
the boundary over into anthropology.
Can we imagine that some nuts will try to cram more and more species
into the Homo genus???
Not that I'm against protecting chimps. They are obviously the most
likely candidates for any sort of uplift program we might choose to
undertake in the future. Their existing sign language abilities clearly
indicate active child-like intelligence.
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Mike Lorrey
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