Genetically Engineer Tangs to be small?

[Spare time]

To be fair… I think we went down this rabbit hole because in one of your posts you made a comment toward different species not being able to produce fertile offspring and then brought up the term subspecies and I pointed out why this wasn’t necessarily a true statement.

There are few things I know in this world: 1) anything that has a strict black and white definition can and will be challenged and 2) I don’t make any blanket statements.

I made a couple of fun comments at the beginning of the thread toward being able to make dwarf versions of tangs; I am sure I can find the right genes and go after if I try hard enough if any of the tang genomes have been sequenced, I’m sure I can potentially generate some variant strains of DNA etc etc etc. I wouldn’t… not ethical in my book… but it was fun to talk about. Someone on the thread is interested in hominids and speciation and Neanderthal DNA and Y chromosomal lineages so we spoke about that. I’m not sitting on this side of the laptop trying to define what the scientific community agrees or disagrees upon… largely because I’ve been doing this long enough to know that what is canon today will be debunked tomorrow and I am completely non committal to any one given idea because I accept that I am wrong about most things :).

Hominins, not hominids :)

 

[crazyfishmom]

Hominins, not hominids :)

I use them interchangeably despite knowing better. But yes agreed :)

 

[OrionN]

To be fair… I think we went down this rabbit hole because in one of your posts you made a comment toward different species not being able to produce fertile offspring and then brought up the term subspecies and I pointed out why this wasn’t necessarily a true statement.

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@livinlifeinBKK
Absolutely agree with the above. It was @crazyfishmom and I reacted to your post regarding only same species can produce fertile offspring.