Jun 112018
 

Ugh.

Meet Mrs Perfect: Scientists reveal what a ‘superwoman’ really would look like – complete with bat ears, slimy frog skin and a kangaroo pouch

So, it’s an article about what *one* scientist thinks a “perfect” human would look like if said human was genetically engineered with bits of other animals. Granted, some ideas for genetic engineering upgrades make some kind of sense… stranger hearts less susceptible to attacks, better immune systems, more acute hearing, better eyesight, blah, blah, blah. But those could be done with, presumably, little to no change to the actual *form* of the baseline human. But this suggestion goes a little further than that:

Yeah. Ummmm… no.

In order for a human to be “better,” it would need to be able to reproduce. It seems very likely that a human modified to such an extent would not be genetically compatible and physically able to reproduce with a stock human, so this would be effectively a new species. But even if it was compatible, and the major changes were made genetically dominant so they would carry over unchanged into the next generation, there is another problem with reproducing this type of human:

Yuck.

In order to breed, ya generally gotta *want* to breed. Granted, I speak for nobody but myself, and I know there are a lot of guys who’ll do just about anything, and a lot of guys who are into furries and such, but the concept shown here is not exactly… inspiring.

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