> On 20 Jun 2020, at 02:01, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > 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?
Easy. By forbidden or mocking the use of reason in the field for a Lon period of time. The ethic question is “do you accept that your daughter marry an ape, or a pig, genetically modified, and which, actually has a PhD thesis in the cognitive science, or physics, or whatever …? Should we consider as racist someone answering no to that question? Bruno > > 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 > <mailto: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/C318BAC9-7231-41E1-8D40-C7D499AA6E31%40ulb.ac.be.
