apes

Could scinetists through genetic manipulation over a period of several years develope an ape perhaps a chimpanzee with a head as big as a human head and a brain as intelligent as a human brain?

A true head scratcher More fun than a barrel of monkees!! Should apes be treated as equals? Koko is supposed to have an I.Q. of 76.

Should Chimps Have Rights? http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-06-27T145440Z_01_L27821328_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPAIN-APES.xml There already are animal rights groups in the US and the scale of rights for apes remains to be seen in this setting; however...

I seem to remember that someone in this forum has some experience working with great apes and this line of study. I would like to hear from them, or anyone else with some knowledge about this area. Here, in Des Moines, they have opened the Great Ape Trust facility. It's not open to the...

We've seen the hints, the suggestions, the thinly-veiled threats. Lately, even once-sweet Koko has revealed her dark side. All along I've tried to communicate the threat primates pose to homo sapiens. You laughed. "Oh, don't be silly Jocko, mankind will never be unseated by our humorous...

I was looking at my two dogs the other day, and wondered, if we can breed such disparate types, (one is intelligent, friendly, fluffy, the other stupid, agressive and short haired), if there is any research going on into breeding intelligent apes. A quick look at Mr Google doesn't reveal much.

The Bondo Mystery Apes View a video of a recent (Jul. 16) CNN report on the Bondo Mystery Apes here. (Scroll down to Sci-Tech section.) Requires CNN NewsPass or RealOne SuperPasss. Also free to AOL Broadband and RoadRunner subscribers.

If apes have 96% the same DNA as humans what is the other 4% that makes us what we are?