The Egyptians wore funny hats to fool people into thinking they had weird, but SYMMETRICAL, upper crust status skulls. Now where have we seen THAT before?
But if the top brass really had skulls shaped like that, as the EVIDENCE supports (Google it!), and they were
NOT cranial deformations or malformations but the
result of genetic modification, a little knowledge (to put mildly! ) of transfer DNA in LIFE processes might have helped get that result. The Ankh looks like the Transfer DNA molecule. What better way to communicate to posterity that you knew a thing or three about GMOing a human? :icon_mrgreen:
The ankh (/ˈæŋk/ or /ˈɑːŋk/; Egyptian: IPA: [ʕaːnax]; U+2625 ☥ or U+132F9 𓋹), also known as breath of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata (Latin meaning "cross with a handle"), was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "life", a triliteral sign for the consonants ꜥ-n-ḫ.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnkhSNIPPET from a 2005 article:U.S. Denies Patent for a Too-Human Hybridby Rick Weiss, Washington Post
February 13th, 2005
The decision letter to Newman notes that many people have heart valves from pigs. A patent has even issued on the use of baboon cells in people to aid in organ transplantation. Those procedures, the letter says, "did not convert the human patient to a non-human."
Similarly, mice that have up to 1 percent human brain cells in their skulls are clearly mice, said Stanford University biologist Irving Weissman, one of the scientists who helped make hybrid rodents.
The tricky part, all agree, is what to do with the middle ground. Weissman and others, for example, have talked about their desire to make mice whose brains are made entirely of human brain cells.
A preponderance of "H"'s Greely, a professor of law and director of Stanford's Center for Law and the Biosciences, said even those animals would not seem very human to him. "But a chimp brain with human neurons. . . ."
That's exactly the kind of scenario that makes Rifkin, Newman and others want a total ban.
"If the U.S. Congress and president are not willing to do this now, then there is no door that will remain closed to an era of commercial eugenics," Rifkin said. "We'll be on our way to that brave new world that Aldous Huxley warned us about."
Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, agreed that Congress should at least get involved.
"The patent office is not the place for society to make its moral decisions," Kass said.
Weldon, the Florida representative, said he is interested in providing such guidance -- and believes the public would favor restrictions.
"There's instant public revulsion when you start talking with the average person about this stuff." For starters, Weldon said, "I'd like to ban the creation of human embryos with animal genes in them."
But many scientists fear that Congress is likely to overreact.
"There are chimeras out there that serve very valuable purposes in medical research, such as mice that make human antibodies," said Michael Werner, chief of policy for the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
"This is sufficiently technical scientifically that it should be left to scientific bodies like the National Academy of Sciences to decide." http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=1581