(May 15, 2015 at 8:31 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(May 15, 2015 at 7:53 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Darn, they didn't raise them from embryos into juveniles. *sigh*
Right?!?
Would have been sweet to have a little Compsognathus. Chicken Compy!
Gene manipulation that result in major structural change in one go is usually not clean. Often other tissues and structures around it fail to adapt. The result most likely won't survive.
Even though we had 6 million years to evolve the retention of infant chimp jaws through adulthood, our structures and tissues around our Jaws haven't fully adapted. The consequence is our jaws are too short and too small for our adult teeth. Which is why very few humans are naturally spared from having crooked teeth. Most chimps won't need orthrodontists. Chimps have the long snout and big jaw their teeth were adapted to. So their teeth don't come out crooked.
