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Old 09-22-2005, 05:59 AM
KeysrSoze KeysrSoze is offline
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Default Re: The Sklansky Chimpanzee Question

I dont think chimps have a certain lobe or something that would enable spoken language even if there was a voicebox operation. But anyway, selective breeding is astonishingly quick compared to natural selection. Breeding for intelligence might not take long at all depending on how lucky you are to get the right mutations along the way.
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Old 09-22-2005, 10:01 PM
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Default Re: The Sklansky Chimpanzee Question

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I dont think chimps have a certain lobe or something that would enable spoken language even if there was a voicebox operation. But anyway, selective breeding is astonishingly quick compared to natural selection. Breeding for intelligence might not take long at all depending on how lucky you are to get the right mutations along the way.

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Yea, It would be blazingly fast compared to natural selection, but how many orders of magnitude are we talking?


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