The genetic button that could turn a WOMAN into a CHIMPANZEE

If you have any poo, now is the time to fling it...

They've been been turning people into chimps for years - just look at the behaviour of the "honourable members" in Westminster if you need any proof.

mankind has somewhat different biology and behaviour?

Could have fooled me re: behavior...

Also, C for writing and D for for the title. Sometimes El Reg goes over the top with the titles (er, i mean, too far over the top, they're always a bit over the top...)

Turn woman into gorilla: it's been done

Over here in the US, "woman turning into a gorilla" used to be a pretty standard carnival/fair side-show attraction (dunno if they still do it). There's a line of patter about a scientist doing research in Africa and accidental discovery of a serum that causes a person to change back and forth between human and gorilla. There's an attactive woman (in a bikini of course) standing in a large cage. After the build-up, she gradually transforms into a "gorilla", and starts shaking the bars of the cage, which of course, come undone and she escapes -- roaring and threatening the audience. When properly staged and presented, it's actually quite entertaining.

Hint: they do it with a partially silvered mirror and some dimmable lights...

Yeah, brilliant discovery

But if you write a computer program that's 90% like another computer program but with random additions, and then run them both, you'll probably find the execution paths diverge pretty rapidly and the output is completely different.

Which is pretty much what they claim to have discovered.

Why do it the hard way?

IMO, it would be far easier to turn a man into an ape than a woman, but much less of an accomplishment. I mean, not much needed, what?