Deborah Harrell wrote:
> 
> Not to underplay Himself's importance or brilliance,
> but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get
> intelligent servants/companions is not His invention:
> the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is about
> gengineered cats and was written sometime in the late
> '60's or early '70's, 
>
Ok. I think I had read some stories with Uplift prior
to His Canon too.

> and what about _Planet of the Apes_?
> 
This is not Uplift, this is time-travel paradox. The
apes become intelligent because they inherit from Caesar,
and Caeser is intelligent because his parents com from
the future where chimpanzees are intelligent. 

[ok, but what about gorillas and orangutans?]

Alberto Monteiro

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