Really, Really Smart Monkeys

Sunday Mail writes:

EXPERIMENTS where human brain cells are injected into monkey foetuses could lead to a moral nightmare, scientists will be warned this week. A high-powered American committee is to call for restrictions on the research, amid fears that it could produce monkeys with brains that are more human than animal. The group of neuro-scientists, bio-ethicists, animal behaviouralists, lawyers and philosophers was set up four years ago to investigate the growing science of human-primate 'chimeras' - named after Greek literature's myt hical monsters, a combination of lion, goat and snake. Now the team, based at John Hopkins University in Maryland, is publishing its conclusions in leading journal Science.

Have seen nothing of either this group and its deliberations or of Evan's coming Science publication. But buckle up for this one.