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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
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Date: 9 May 88 16:41:27 GMT
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In article <2087@bgsuvax.UUCP> Ken Jenkins writes:

>Consider the following from The Dragon's of Eden by Carl Sagan;
>
> For we all know, occasional viable crosses between humans and
>chimpanzees are possible. The natural experiment must have been
>tried very infrequently, at least recently. If such offspring
>are ever produced, what will their legal status be?"


Hell, that's too easy: Same as Astronomers and SF writers!



Rich