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From: sparks@druwy.ATT.COM (SparksAE)
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Subject: Re: Human/Chimp Hybrids?
Summary: ethics
Keywords: ick!
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Date: 2 Oct 90 18:46:55 GMT
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In article <5042@hsv3.UUCP>, mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
> It seems to me that some of the more abstract questions involved could
> be examined, without treading into the thorny moral and ethical
> problems, by trying {chimp,gorilla,orangutan,gibbon; pick two}
> crosses.  Has this been tried?  If so, it probably wasn't sucessful.
> Any data?
> -- 
> Mike Van Pelt



Why would this remove "the thorny moral and ethical problems"?

Some of these primates (chimpanzees anyway) are close enough genetically
to humans that the question of hybrids with humans has, on this forum, been
considered a reasonable question to pose and discuss.
Is it consistent to believe that they do not deserve similar (to humans)
moral/ethical consideration?

Alan Sparks