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In article <6693@allegra.UUCP> atd@allegra.UUCP (Anton Dahbura) writes:
>
>      ITALIAN SCIENTISTS CONFIRM APEMAN CAN BE CREATED
>
>      by Uli Schmetzer (Chicago Tribune, May 14, 1987)
>
>
>     ROME- The image of the mad  scientist  with  the  white
>beard  concocting an apeman in his laboratory is no longer a
>science fiction fable but a 1987 possibility.
>
>     An  Italian  anthropologist   said   this   week   that
>biogenetic  scientists,  using refined techniques of artifi-
>cial fertilization, are capable of creating a new  breed  of
>slave,  an  anthropoid  with a chimpanzee mother and a human
>father.
>
>     Brunetto Chiarelli, dean of  anthropology  at  Florence
>University, said the experiments on the new subhuman species
>had been interrupted at the embryo stage because of "ethical
>problems".

     Boy, major deja vu here. It just so happens that some expert on chimps,
apes and monkeys was on Johnny Carson's show last night. She had been doing
research in Borneo for the last 15-20 years, and one of the things she said
was that "Chimpanzees are the closest genetic cousins to humans on this planet,
with humans and the chimps sharing about 99% of the same genetic material".
She also went on to state that because of the close genetic matching, "If the
blood tissues and types match, a human can get a blood transfusion from a
chimpanzee, and there are quite a few humans out there with chimpanzee blood
running through their bodies".

     So I think, "It sure sounds like just a matter of time before it would
be possible for crossbreeding, and wondering why it hasn't happened before
now." (Don't ask me, I'm just a software type, and that sure sounds like a
hardware problem to me!!! (-:).

Boy
do
I
hate
inews!!
It
sure
is
fascist!!