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From: hes@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med
Subject: Re: Neoteny and Human Genetic Engineering
Summary: unexpected results???
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Date: 4 Jan 89 03:03:41 GMT
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In article <13127@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
 > At the end of Stephen Jay Gould's book Mismeasure of Man, there is a short
 > epilogue regarding his belief that man is a neotenous form of an ape-like
 > ancestor.
 > ... 
 > Another possibility, with lighter ethical baggage, would be to neotenize
 > one of our primate cousins.  If its intelligence could be raised by a
 > factor of 10, it could be darn useful as an assistant or for assembly-line
 > work.

  Or, on the other hand, we might end up as assistants for it.

 > ...