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Letter: All creatures great and small, and evolved

Published 9 January 2019

From Jeremy Cook, Barnet, Hertfordshire, UK

James Mitchell Crow gives a short description of some synthetic engineered life forms, currently being developed by Nina Pollak in Australia, that will look like juvenile jellyfish (8 December 2018, p 40). You called them “pseudo-creatures”.

They will be real creatures, in the original, historical sense of the word, as they will have a creator. In that sense, we are the pseudo-creatures because we evolved without requiring one.

Issue no. 3212 published 12 January 2019

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