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C-14 THE ONCINNATI ENQUIRERFriday, February 13, 1981 Chinese Scientists Want To Create 'Human' Ape GLASSY-EYED: A new underwater. viewing window at ttie Point Defiance Zoo In Tacoma, Wastv, allows visitors to the polar bear habitat to exchange close stares with the bears. Experiment's Goal: Subservient Species 4 APLiMrphoto However, LI Guong, of the genetics research bureau of the Academy of Science, treats It seriously. "My personal view is that it Is possible, because according to general biological distinctions, they (men and apes) belong to the same category," he sald. "We also did experimental work on this before the Cultural Revolution, but we were stopped.

At the moment, we plan to arrange further tests." Jl also noted that the World Health Organization recently held a meeting In Rome to discuss the problems and ethics of transplanting animal organs into humans. He said if such a "near-human ape" species were created, it could offer a solution to the problem of human rejection of animal organs. The new species' organs would be preferable to artificial organs in transplants to humans. HE ALSO said a "factory" could be set up to provide parts from the "near-human ape." The doctor also spoke of the possibility of transplanting heads. At the same time of the ape-human experiments, he recalled, researchers In Harbin were trying to transplant the heads of dogs.

That work, too, apparently ended with the Cultural Revolution. The Shanghai newspaper article was unclear whether the doctor proposed exchanging only the brains or the entire heads of humans and "near-human apes" If such a species could be developed, but he did say a transplant from a human to a new creature could be beneficial In that "the Intelligence of a man can still be used." Though there are shades of Frankenstein's monster In his proposals, Jl claims It should not be offensive now that artificial organs are Implanted and "organic organs" theoretically are deemed better. Questioned about this kind of experimenting when China Is engaged in a massive program to limit human births, he responded: "My Idea is that man Is the master of the natural world and although the human population is growing an the time, this doesn't preclude the possibility of developing other species." Jl said the idea of a "near-human ape" was to serve the needs of mankind. Using human sperm for such an experiment Is ethically all right, he said, because it Is produced anyway and most of It is wasted. "Why should we be like the man that (the ancient Chinese philosopher) Mencius described who likes to eat meat but doesn't go anywhere near the slaughterhouse?" BY TIMOTHY AAcNULTY Chicago Tribune PEKING Chinese scientists at one time experimented with fertilizing a chimpanzee with human sperm in an attempt to create a "near-human ape," and they may try It again.

The chimp was three months pregnant before the first experiment was halted, one of the original researchers claims. Western science long has scoffed at such an experiment as medically impossible, but Dr. Jl Yongxlang says the research, If It ever resumes, has the potential to develop creatures with higher animal Intelligence who could speak and perform simple tasks. A second researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science said there were plans to resume testing. THE BENEFITS of a new species are legion, Jl said In an Interview with the Shanghai newspaper, Wen Hui Bao.

The creatures could be used for herding sheep and cows and driving carts, he said, and they could be used In exploring space, the bottom of the sea, and In mines. "If It had worked, it would have taken the medical world by surprise," Jl said. Jl was a surgeon before the Cultural Revolution, and now he is director of the small Su Jiao Tuen Hospital In Shenyang, a provincial capital In northern China. During the Cultural Revolution, he was branded a "counter-revolutionary" and sent to work on a farm for 10 years. He was one of two doctors who did the ape experiment Jl said the fertilizing experiment In Shenyang was stopped by the Cultural Revolution In 1967 when the laboratory was smashed, researchers were hounded from their studies and the chimp died from neglect He said the primary object of the experiment was to develop a creature with a larger brain and mouth.

One factor that makes It impossible for a chimp to imitate human sounds is that its mouth Is too narrow, he said. THE RESEARCH was spurred by the evolu-. tionary belief that humans and apes were "orlgi- nally related" and still are compatible enough to produce common offspring. It Is a point that has led to much fantasy aid humor In the Western world. mm HOME IMPROVEMENT SUPERMART TlLOSfpiJNt AMD WAI I PAPFR CAI rl- 9mm rRUM ONLY GLAZED MOSAIC TILE GREAT ON WALLS, FLOORS C0UNTERT0PS! PERMANENT FIRED-ON GLAZE 10110 APPROL SQ.

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