Homo sapiens

The next day, early in the morning.

It's just dawn in Manila.

In the conference hall hosting the human evolution conference, many people had already arrived, and these people were discussing the topic of today's conference in small groups.

As soon as Ang Fujita went online, he was stopped by Dr. Muxi from the Venus Life Research Institute.

"Fujita, long time no see."

Fujita Ang looked surprised: "Teacher Muxi, so you are also here to participate in this seminar? Why didn't I see you yesterday?"

"I was doing an experiment yesterday and couldn't get away." Muxi explained, and then asked with a smile: "Fujita, I heard that you are studying six-clawed people?"

This is not a secret. It was kept secret before. Now that the company has disclosed the existence of the six-claw civilization, he naturally has no scruples and nodded slightly:

"Yes, Teacher Muxi, we have been studying it for almost two years. Currently, I am responsible for studying the plants of the Six Claw Civilization."

Muxi was a little curious: "What are the characteristics of the plants of the Six Claw Civilization?"

Fujita Ang organized the language: "How to put it... the plants of the Six Claw Civilization do not rely on photosynthesis, but on geothermal heat. They do not have chloroplasts themselves, but use a structure called thermal cell wall..."

After listening to Fujita Ang's explanation, Muxi stroked his beard thoughtfully: "Some underground creatures on Venus also have similar structures. It seems that convergent evolution exists even across other galaxies."

"Teacher, today's theme is the combination of artificial organs and genes. What do you think?"

"My opinion is very simple. If we want to go to the universe, there is no hope of relying on natural evolution in a short time." Muxi made the key point in one sentence.

Hearing this, Fujita Ao felt the same way.

When conducting an in-depth study of the development process of the Six-Claw Civilization, Fujita Ao knew that it would be very difficult for humans to evolve from beings on a single planet to beings in the universe.

Even for the six-clawed people who have been developing in the space field for hundreds of thousands of years, their genetic evolution path is actually very bumpy and dangerous.

Just when the two of them were chatting.

Li Qingye and Tian Hemeng also arrived.

Just like yesterday, Li Qingye got straight to the point: "Everyone, the theme of today's discussion is the combination of artificial organs and genes. As we all know, with the development of the times, we will inevitably move towards the model of cosmic biology."

"I think cosmic creatures must have five abilities: first, long-term and stable internal biological circulation; second, they must be able to resist various rays and high-energy particles in the universe; third, they must have the ability to directly obtain life energy from the universe and nutrients; fourth, it must have the ability to fly in a vacuum and change orbit; fifth, it must have the ability to communicate over long distances."

"Obviously, these five standards are too high. With the help of biological base armor, current human beings can only barely achieve a small part of them. Therefore, today, civilization will discuss how to completely turn biological base armor into Part of the human genome.”

After Li Qingye offered his advice, others were not to be outdone and expressed their thoughts one after another.

Off stage.

Fujita Ang expressed his thoughts to his teacher Muxi: "Teacher, if we use chromosomes to edit the genes of a total of biological bases to create a new pair of chromosomes, then can we use the biological bases to edit the genes? Genes that turn into humans?”

However, Muxi shook his head: "Fujita, your idea is good, but it is too conservative. I think we should adopt a triploid structure to double the number of human chromosomes."

"Nani? Double the number of chromosomes? But this should affect reproduction, right?" Fujita frowned and thought.

Another researcher on the side patted him on the shoulder: "Junior brother, have you forgotten what senior brother is studying?"

Fujita Ang looked at his senior brother Zhang Yuan, whom he had not seen for a long time: "Senior brother, has the human asexual reproduction technology you researched been successful?"

Zhang Yuan proudly pulled out a paper: "This is something that a few colleagues and I researched some time ago. It's called the reproduction control system. It's modulated using various genes. If it can be transformed into a pair of systems that specifically manage reproduction, Chromosomes, let alone doubling the number of chromosomes, even triploids and tetraploids can reproduce. I have done relevant experiments on polyploid animals."

Fujita Ang and Muxi were very surprised, and they hurriedly looked through the paper.

After reading it, the two discovered that the technology studied by Zhang Yuan was very powerful. It was equivalent to artificially creating a new pair of XY chromosomes, and it also drew on the genetic reproduction models of other animals and plants.

Zhang Yuan explained: “This is part of the technology that the company plans to support in the monomer breeding system in the future.”

The three masters and apprentices continued to discuss.

And many researchers who have already prepared theoretically have come to the stage to express their ideas.

Li Qingye listened and summarized the opinions of all parties.

The current theory of evolution has three assumptions.

One is the gene replacement theory, which is to remove some useless genes from the original human gene sequence and replace it with a gene sequence that can adapt to the universe.

One is the gene increment theory, which is to add a part of new gene sequence to the original human gene sequence so that human beings can adapt to life in the universe.

One is the theory of extreme evolution, which allows human genes to naturally mutate in the cosmic environment by accelerating mutation, thereby screening out a part of the cosmic genes that can be used, and then adding them to human genes through genetic recombination.

Among them, the idea of ​​chromosome doubling by Mushi, Fujita and others is one of the branches of the gene increment theory.

At present, all the theories are that the public is right and the mother-in-law is right.

Li Qingye did not directly specify which one would be the future direction. His idea was to let a hundred flowers bloom.

Anyway, the resources of Homo Sapien Company are relatively sufficient, and the three routes can go hand in hand. Even if only one is suitable in the end, they can promote each other under fierce competition.

Even Li Qingye did not dare to easily decide which technical route would be the future of human evolution.

On the road of evolution, there are no goals that Homo sapiens companies can learn from and refer to.

Six-clawed people are also only half-space creatures. They have no way to escape from auxiliary equipment and spacesuits in the vacuum environment of the universe.

Therefore, Li Qingye planned to invest in all three avenues.

However, he personally prefers the chromosome doubling theory, which is to double the number of chromosomes without greatly changing the original gene sequence. The new organs can be controlled through the gene sequences of these new chromosomes.

At the current seminar, the "internal circulation organ", "photosynthetic cortex organ", "energy storage organ", "compressed gas ejection organ", "remote communication organ", "mineral decomposition and absorption organ", "radiation resistance organ" have been preliminarily identified. and a shell organ that resists high-energy particles.”

These seven new organs were officially established for research.

And these newly added organs certainly cannot be controlled using the original human genetic sequence, but must be controlled using newly added genetic sequences.

This is consistent with the theory of chromosome increment, and can be combined with each other to edit the genes of new organs and then combine them into new chromosomes.

This is also the reason why Li Qingye is more optimistic about the chromosome increment theory, because the two are easier to combine.

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