On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 8:01 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0AbW3BASxFNMNHPkdq36AkFCBzxLPVt8StTPE3CD-%2BDQ%40mail.gmail.com.
