>>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?
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>Or just sit back & hope (pray ?) that they are an evolutionary deadend & will become rapidly extinct.

Should extinction occur, don't we present ourselves with a problem of devolution? Who will do their job? I'll go by sitting, hoping and praying!

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