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From: urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
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Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 23:33:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 23:33:57 1987
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In article <2911@ihlpl.ATT.COM>, rs55611@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Robert E. Schleicher) writes:
> In article <548@bucket.UUCP>, leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> > 
> > As I recall, human DNA is similar enough to gorilla that a hybrid would
> > quite likely be viable! Of course, no one is going to try it. It is a real
> > can of worms ethically....
> > 
> Amazingly,  I read a short article in the newspaper some time ago
> (which I'm trying to recall from memory, so please bear with some vagueness)
> about some researchers in Italy who had been experimenting with fertilization
> of human eggs with either gorila or chimp sperm (or the other way around).
  ......................
> The scariest part of the article was a quote from one of the researchers
> who said something to the effect of:  (paraphrasing) "Just think!
   .......................
> The article concluded with the following food for thought (perhaps far-fetched;
    ..............................
> a half-human?)  What about the exceptional half-human that's more intelligent
> than some full-human?
      ...........................
> (Perhaps someone who remembers the article more clearly can elaborate.
> The article I read was in the Chicago Tribune quite a few months ago.)


Mr. Schleicher
I think your memory of the newspaper article is extremely vivid.
   
This topic, with all tangent offshoots, ranging from learned 
discussions of crossbreeding chains (A -> B ... -> P, but not P -> A),
to blazing issues of human rights, women's rights, morality and
in general religions, filled the net for over a month just after
the article was published.
Perhaps someone has these discussions archived and would send
a digestified or raw tape of them to Mr. Schleicher. I hope the net 
audience is not so transient that the discussion repeats the same 
material.