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To: Ilaine who wrote (219656)	2/20/2007 9:42:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Ilane, we are just polished up chimps. Think of a baby chimp and how you would get on with this: < As well as good prenatal nutrition, no prenatal drugs, a non-damaging birth, an enriched environment, warm, kind and compassionate family and friends, lots of books, good role models, good nutrition growing up, people to teach things like reading and history and math and physics and logic and philosophy and compassion, people to teach impulse control and good manners. So many things to learn but in the right environment learning comes easy.>o It's still going to be a chimp, but a nice-natured one. You just can't teach those things to chimps. Neither can you teach them to a lot of people. People aren't all clones. We aren't all the same when born, or when conceived, just waiting to get that good stuff you listed. Humans have a huge range of DNA and I think with the right breeding programme you could make a chimp out of people without many mutations being reinstalled. We are leaving our chimpoid state behind by eugenics, not by education, though education is an essential ingredient once the right DNA is available. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. First you need the right raw materials. We are getting there. An active eugenics programme, rather than leaving it to women to do the eugenics based on a rough guess, would enable rapid progress. Sort out the DNA to find what does what, then give women a list of stuff that they could have genetically engineered out of their prospective babies. Cystic fibrosis for a start. There are lots of outright genetic failures which would be good to eliminate. They could also eliminate bad behaviour DNA. Women claim to be against violence and all that, though it seems to give them a rush and they do seem to go for "strong men", so I'm not giving my usual double your money back guarantee that they'd make good choices. They might choose a bunch of OJ Simpsons and make things worse. Perhaps it's the Y chromosome types who have made us better than chimps by eliminating those who were more chimp-like. Mqurice