On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 8:01 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
*So one gene made it necessary to abort because it might have a > humaness...which you must not abort because humaness implies a soul?? How > did our ethical guidelines become so irrational? * It's easy for human beings to strongly believe in 2 viewpoints which logically contradict each other, Trump supporters prove that every day. John K Claek > > On 6/19/2020 9:35 AM, John Clark wrote: > > A gene called "ARHGAP11B" that is found in humans and in no other animal > has long been thought to be at least partially responsible for humans > having an extremely large brain with a high degree of cortical folding. All > other primates have a similar gene, but a point mutation happened between > 500,000 and 1.5 million years ago and a single C was changed to a G in the > human version. In yesterday's issue of the journal Science researchers > report than when Genetic engineering was used to insert the human gene > ARHGAP11B into the fertilized egg of a small monkey (a marmoset ) the > result was a fetus with about 45% more neurons in the neocortex than a > normal fetus and 3 times as many glial cells. A marmoset gestation period > is 152 days but because it had a human gene in it the fetus was aborted > after just 101 days due to ethical guidelines, so it's not known how such > an animal's behavior would change if it was allowed to come to term. > > Human-specific ARHGAP11B increases size and folding of primate neocortex > in the fetal marmoset > <https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/17/science.abb2401> > > > So one gene made it necessary to abort because it might have a > humaness...which you must not abort because humaness implies a soul?? > > How did our ethical guidelines become so irrational? > > I wonder how it would affect a dog? I'll be there would be a market for > smarter dogs. And where there's a market, there's a way. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1243db39-dffd-ab8a-b854-c125c09e676b%40verizon.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1243db39-dffd-ab8a-b854-c125c09e676b%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0AbW3BASxFNMNHPkdq36AkFCBzxLPVt8StTPE3CD-%2BDQ%40mail.gmail.com.
