>>But on a more serious note, coming to your last sentence, if we did make the effort to train them to type a sensible report, do you think not think that their hands would evolve over time to look more like a human's, and as a result, by being pushed into the evolutionary process, would they not cross the intellectual divide?
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>A distinct possibility, but have you got any suggestion on how to get HR to cross that same intellectual divide, they've got a bigger gap to cross than the chimps.

Perhaps by training them in simian behaviour, then putting them through the same tasks as our example chimps, ie learning to type a sensible report, waiting for thumbs to retract, then hoping for the distinct possibility to become a reality?