andrel wrote:
> On 22-7-2009 23:43, Darren New wrote:
>> andrel wrote:
>>> Reality check: would my ethics change if there was an intermediate 
>>> (sub)species between humans an chimps? 
>>
>> You mean like Neanderthal? Otherwise, you're going to have to define 
>> "subspecies". :-)
>>
> That was meant in the context of reversing some of the mutations that 
> separate us from the chimps (or retrofitting our mutations in them*).

I understand that. Aren't neanderthals between us and the common ancestor of 
us and chimps?  I.e., didn't cro magnon descend from neanderthal?  I guess I 
should look that up myself, but...

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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