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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Human/Chimp Hybrids? Trogs
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Date: 29 Sep 90 12:52:46 GMT
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From article <27093@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, by binkley@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jon Binkley):
> In article <34305@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
> writes, in response to Michael Siemon:
> 
>>Even simple stuff like fixing a broken gene or implanting a few
>>fetal brain cells brings the would-be Jeremy Rifkins out of the woodwork.
> 
> Precisely.  And if beneficial genetic research brings out the
> anti-technology troglodytes in droves, what do you think the kind
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
> of research you're proposing would do?  ...

Was this an intentional pun, Jon?  The scientific name of the chimpanzee is

     Pan troglodytes


:-)

David Mark
dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu