I want me a chimp slave a la “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.” Is anyone currently breeding a chimp or other animal solely for adaptive intelligence?
(Impossible question to answer below - for the bravely speculative only)
I would also like to speak to my chimp so he’ll need a more complex vocal apparatus. Given a nearly infinite but mutation free sample size, about how long will I have to wait before he has the capacity to produce the phonemes necessary to say “Stop touching me there.”
You may not realize how unique human beings really are. The vocal apparatus is only a part of what is needed for coherent, human like speech. “Signing chimp” stories to the contrary, chimps do not have the requisite brain hardware to process language in anything appproaching a human fashion.
You can breed as smart a chimp as you want, but in the end unless you plan on making some transcendent evolutionary jump all you’re got is a real smart chimp, not a proto-human intelligence or anything even close to it.
You may not realize how unique human beings really are. The vocal apparatus is only a part of what is needed for coherent, human like speech. “Signing chimp” stories to the contrary, chimps do not have the requisite brain hardware to process language in anything appproaching a human fashion.
You can breed as smart a chimp as you want, but in the end unless you plan on making some transcendent evolutionary jump all you’re got is a real smart chimp, not a proto-human intelligence or anything even close to it.
Chimps may not be as smart as humans but at least they don’t double post.
Yeah, but it takes them a million posts just to get one that says what they want it to say.
Well, they’ve already found a chimp that could out-act Ted Bessel, so how hard could it be?
Well, according to this article, they’ve identified what may be a key mutation allowing humans to develop speech, a subtle difference in the FOXP2 gene. Do a little mad scientist action with your other higher primates, and who knows…?