If a subhuman species was created (similar to Neandrethals),
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My subjects will know not the pain of knowledge, only the joy of obedience. They will see their sovereign and His will, not their own, and they will rejoice in His service.
Interesting debate. They would have the mental skills/abilities of farm animals, would it be wrong? If it would be, does that make our use of ANY animal wrong?
What if we made apes a little smarter, got them cool 70's jumpsuits, and put them to work doing simple jobs like cleaning?
Neandertals were if not as smart as modern humans were very very close. Go back a little further, say Habilus. The issue you would run into is controlling them. Without language and culture they would behave in very animal like ways and much like modern great apes they would be extremely violent once they passed adolesence. Most chimps are extremely dangerous. There is a reason you don't find them as domestic servants. Almost any adult chimp could rip your arms off and beat you to death with the stumps.
http://outside.away.com/outside/news/200211/200211shadow_trees.html
http://outside.away.com/outside/news/200211/200211shadow_trees.html
robots. I will build the army of robots that will weary of serving me and take over the world and destroy humanity. It cannot be stopped. Sorry.
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RED hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, scientists believe. Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford say that the so-called "ginger gene" which gives
people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100,000 years old.
They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200,000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago.
Rosalind Harding, the research team leader, said: "The gene is certainly older than 50,000 years and it could be as old as 100,000 years.
"An explanation is that it comes from Neanderthals." It is estimated that at least 10 per cent of Scots have red hair and a further 40 per cent carry the gene responsible, which could account for their once
fearsome reputation as fighters.
Neanderthals have been characterised as migrant hunters and violent cannibals who probably ate most of their meat raw. They were taller and stockier than Homo sapiens, but with shorter limbs, bigger faces
and noses, receding chins and low foreheads.
The two species overlapped for a period of time and the Oxford research appears to suggests that they must have successfully interbred for the "ginger gene" to survive. Neanderthals became extinct about 28,000 years ago, the last dying out in southern Spain and southwest France.
Copyright The Times, London
RED hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, scientists believe. Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford say that the so-called "ginger gene" which gives
people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100,000 years old.
They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200,000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago.
Rosalind Harding, the research team leader, said: "The gene is certainly older than 50,000 years and it could be as old as 100,000 years.
"An explanation is that it comes from Neanderthals." It is estimated that at least 10 per cent of Scots have red hair and a further 40 per cent carry the gene responsible, which could account for their once
fearsome reputation as fighters.
Neanderthals have been characterised as migrant hunters and violent cannibals who probably ate most of their meat raw. They were taller and stockier than Homo sapiens, but with shorter limbs, bigger faces
and noses, receding chins and low foreheads.
The two species overlapped for a period of time and the Oxford research appears to suggests that they must have successfully interbred for the "ginger gene" to survive. Neanderthals became extinct about 28,000 years ago, the last dying out in southern Spain and southwest France.
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