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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (3227)	1/11/2006 5:35:50 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219536

Quite right, using your definitions. It's a lot easier to plug in the right DNA than to study for years. All study gives is technique and knowledge. Which is of course very useful. But having a megapower brain and the same knowledge is vastly better and easier. A few years ago I was planning a business with an intelligence researcher to identify the right genes, patent them for intelligence production, clip them into embryo, and hey presto, women could tick the box for IQ [aka intelligence in common lingo] along with no cystic fibrosis and all the other DNA problems that exist. With cash flow reduction in the Biotelecosmictechdot.com bust, that plan was temporarily shelved. Unlike having huge muscles, which require supporting structures and processes, a powerful brain doesn't need an especially large brain, though it seems to help, and the neck doesn't need to be twice as big, or pancreas larger etc. He thought that contrary to what I thought, there were not masses of important genes, and perhaps as few as half a dozen. "Wow", thunk I. That sounded really simple. Which it probably is. Mqurice