Warren, isn't restoring those lacking charactersitics the whole point of Uplift? After a good amount of progress on Uplifting the chimps, they would be near indistinguishable as far as that went. ~Maru
> From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Nov 26, 2004, at 12:23 PM, John Moynihan wrote: > > > I just finished rereading all of Dr.Brin's Uplift novels > (thanks > > again, they were great) and a question occurred to me > concerning > > chimps and humans. > > > > Since humans and chimps are from the same planet and have 98% > of their > > DNA identical to one another would The Galactics even > consider the two > > as seperate? > > > > I mean when a Kanten or a Soro looked at the two, even to the > point of > > looking at the genetics, wouldn't they simply think they were > looking > > at two variations of the same animal? > > Hmm, why would they? I mean, you'd have to go by more than > appearance > -- there's behavior as well. While we share a lot of behavior > traits > with our simian cousins, we do have some characteristics > (organized > language, technology) that they lack. > > -- > Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books > http://books.nightwares.com/ > Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" > http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
