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Iliketodream
in Evolution, Morphology and Exobiology

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Is it possible to grow functional arms on dolphins using genetic engineering, so they can create tools and manipulate there environment?

You wanna destroy mankind even more than I do, dontchya?

Is it possible to grow functional arms on dolphins using genetic engineering, so they can create tools and manipulate there environment?

 

Is it possible today? Probably not.

 

Possible sometime in the not-too-distant future? Probably, assuming you can get approval to conduct the experiments... Probably a matter of determining which HOX genes are responsible for upper limb development in humans or simians, and determining if one can adapt them to function in the dolphin.

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