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To: Win Smith who wrote (369)	1/17/2003 7:59:28 PM
From: Bilow	of 603

Hi Win Smith; Re: "In a report being published online today by the journal Nature, Dr. Paabo says the FOXP2 gene has remained largely unaltered during the evolution of mammals, but suddenly changed in humans after the hominid line had split off from the chimpanzee line of descent." (1) Sounds like an opportunity here for some genetic manipulation of chimpanzees, if not dogs and cats. (2) Recent evidence suggests that the modification for a given trait can repeatedly arise and disappear as time goes on. A corollary to this is that it may be possible for the same trait to show up in disparate animals. Maybe we should do a search to see whether whales and dolphin genetics look like, as compared to humans and apes. -- Carl

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