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How would you feel about a half-human half-chimp hybrid?

Richard Dawkins [1.1.09]

Dawkins speculates about how a human-chimp hybrid or the discovery of a living Homo erectus would change the way we see the world. — James Randerson

 
In a late response to Edge.org's annual New Year challenge to the world's leading thinkers, Prof Richard Dawkins has submitted his entry. Edge.org asked scientists, philosophers, artists and journalists "What will change everything?"
 
Dawkins – author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion – muses on the effect of breaking down the barrier between humans and animals, perhaps by the creation of a chimera in a lab or a "successful hybridisation between a human and a chimpanzee".
 
Here's what he had to say.

How would you feel about a half-human half-chimp hybrid? [1]

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[ Thu. Jan. 1. 2009 ]

Dawkins speculates about how a human-chimp hybrid or the discovery of a living Homo erectus would change the way we see the world. — James Randerson

 
In a late response to Edge.org's annual New Year challenge to the world's leading thinkers, Prof Richard Dawkins has submitted his entry. Edge.org asked scientists, philosophers, artists and journalists "What will change everything?"
 
Dawkins – author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion – muses on the effect of breaking down the barrier between humans and animals, perhaps by the creation of a chimera in a lab or a "successful hybridisation between a human and a chimpanzee".
 
Here's what he had to say.

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[1] https://www.edge.org/news/how-would-you-feel-about-a-half-human-half-chimp-hybrid
[2] http://is.gd/OnvSNd
[3] https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-will-change-everything
[4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jan/02/richard-dawkins-chimpanzee-hybrid
[5] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/richard_dawkins