"Robert Karl Stonjek" wrote
> So, what are we going to call the hybrid species, assuming that it is
> fertile?  It would have to be either 'Homo paniscus' or 'Pan sapiens'.
> No doubt, come election time, politicians will be spreading rumours of
other
> candidates lineage "no, our family has always been hairy, long before the
> bonobo-human experiments.  And opposable toes allow me to use two
keyboards
> simultaneously, allowing me to do twice the work of others."
>
> Kind Regards,
> Robert Karl Stonjek.

Cute!  I suppose I should have qualified my question a little more, lest
we have to start giving Bonobos born in the US the right to vote.

I was more specifically interested in the latest linguistics analysis that
FOXP2 plays, and perhaps if some one can identify the proper changes
needed, in genetic modifications to provide better vocal tracts for
the modified Bonobos, so they can vocalize what linguistic capabilities
they acquire after the modifications.

Of course, anyone can keep modifying them until the distance between
human and homobo is less than half the present distance between human
and bonobo, but why would you want to do that in the first place?
Just giving a different species the chance to communicate with us would
be a great advance.

Rich


> > Rich  wrote or quoted:
> >
> > > Has anyone tried an experiment to change
> > > the bonobo's FOXP2 allele to the human
> > > version of FOXP2?
> > >
> > > Also, haver there been any experiments to
> > > figure out if there is a way to make a hybrid
> > > bonobo-human?  I.e., can we work out a
> > > way to make offspring that include both
> > > genomes?
> >
> > Perhaps search under the word "humanzee".
> >
> > http://www.gate.net/~rwms/hum_ape_chrom.html
> >
> > ...explains the chromosomal differences that would be encountered.
> >
> > Today such a project would be technically challenging - but in the
future
> > we will be able to interbreed (at least genetically) with practically
> > every other organism on the planet - including our cousins.
> >
> > I.e. technology will turn the biosphere's gene pool into one big melting
> > pot - and horizontal gene transfer will see a dramatic resurgence - as
> > a technology trade is established between previously-separated species.
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