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On the origin of our species
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Gaps in the fossil record have limited our understanding of howHomo sapiens evolved. The discovery in Morocco of the earliest knownH. sapiens fossils might revise our ideas about human evolution in Africa.See Lettersp.289 &p.293
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allan lindh
Of course if George Church could get the go-ahead to edit into a human genome, starting maybe with a San genome, as much as possible of the Neanderthal genome, and implant an egg and bring it to term, and if survives birth, raise it up, we would learn more about the cognitive differences in a day, that we will in 100 years of speculation. I understand the moral and ethical dilemmas involved, but if people think those are the greatest moral dilemmas we face today, they should open their eyes and look around the planet today — the developed world's behavior vis a vis the world's poorest, is vastly more egregious than trying to create a Human/Neanderthal hybrid, something from which we would learn a great deal. All we learn by ignoring the plight of the poorest is what unconscionable hypocrites we are.
