Homo sapiens.

Chapter 627 Evolution ([-])

The next day, early in the morning.

It's just dawn in Manila.

In the conference hall that hosts the Human Evolution Conference, many people have arrived first, and these people are discussing today's conference theme in groups of three or four.

As soon as Fujita went online, he was stopped by Dr. Osmanthus from the Venus Institute of Life.

"Fujita, long time no see."

Fujita Hiroshi looked surprised: "Mr. Mu Xi, so you also came to participate in this seminar? Why didn't I see you yesterday?"

"I was doing an experiment yesterday, and I couldn't get away." Mu Xi 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, but now that the company has disclosed the existence of the six-claw civilization, he naturally has no scruples, and nodded slightly:

"Yes, Mr. Osmanthus, we have been studying it for almost two years, and I am currently in charge of studying the plants of the six-clawed civilization."

Osmanthus is a little curious: "Are there any characteristics of the plants of the six-claw civilization?"

Fujita organized the language: "How should I put it... The plants of the six-claw civilization do not rely on photosynthesis, but rely on geothermal heat. They do not have chloroplasts themselves, but use a structure called thermal cell walls..."

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

"Teacher, today's topic is the combination of artificial organs and genes, what do you think?"

"My view is very simple. If we want to go to the universe, there is no hope of relying on natural evolution in a short period of time." Mu Xi explained the key point.

Hearing this, Atsushi Fujita felt the same way.

When studying the development of the six-claw civilization in depth, Atsushi Fujita knew that it is very difficult for human beings to evolve from a single planetary creature to a cosmic creature.

Even for the six-clawed people who have developed in the space field for 10,000+ years, their genetic evolution path is actually very bumpy and dangerous.

Just when the two were chatting.

Li Qingye and Tian Hemeng also arrived.

Still the same as yesterday, Li Qingye went straight to the point: "Everyone, the topic 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 creatures."

"In my opinion, cosmic organisms must have five abilities: first, long-term stable biological internal circulation; second, must be able to resist various rays and high-energy particles in the universe; third, must have direct access to life energy from the universe and nutrients; fourth, it must have the capability of vacuum flight and orbit change; fifth, it must have the ability of long-distance communication.”

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

After Li Qingye threw bricks to attract jade, the others were not to be outdone, and expressed their thoughts one after another.

offstage.

Fujita Atsushi expressed his thoughts to his teacher Mu Xi: "Teacher, if we use chromosomes to edit the genes with a total of biogenic genes to create a pair of brand new chromosomes, can we make biogenic genes Become a human gene?"

But Osmanthus shook his head: "Fujita, your idea is good, but it's too conservative. I think a diploid structure should be adopted to double the number of human chromosomes."

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

Another researcher at the side patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, have you forgotten what your brother is doing research?"

Fujita Aung 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 brought up a paper: "This is what I and a few colleagues researched some time ago. It's called the reproductive control system. It's made by using various genes. If it can be transformed into a pair of reproductive Chromosomes, let alone doubling the number of chromosomes, even triploids and tetraploids can reproduce, and I have done related experiments on polyploid animals."

Fujita Atsushi and Mu Xi were very surprised, and they hurriedly flipped through the paper.

After reading it, the two found out that the technology researched by Zhang Yuan is very powerful, which is equivalent to artificially creating a pair of brand new XY chromosomes, and also borrowed the genetic reproduction mode of other animals and plants.

Zhang Yuan explained: "This is part of the technology that the company intends to provide to the single breeding system in the future."

The three master and apprentice continued to discuss.

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

While listening, Li Qingye summed up the views of all parties.

The current theory of evolution has three hypothetical routes.

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

One is the theory of gene increment, 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 mutate naturally in the cosmic environment through accelerated mutations, 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 chromosome multiplication idea of ​​Osmanthus, Fujita and others is one of the branches of the gene increment theory.

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

Li Qingye also didn't directly designate which one as the future direction, his idea is to let a hundred flowers bloom.

Anyway, Homo Sapiens has sufficient resources, and the three routes can go hand in hand. Even if only one is the last one, under fierce competition, they can also promote each other.

Even Li Qingye didn't dare to easily decide which technology route is the future of human evolution.

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

The six-clawed people are also only half-cosmic creatures, and they also have no way to get rid of auxiliary equipment and spacesuits in the vacuum environment of the universe.

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

However, he personally prefers the theory of chromosome doubling, doubling the number of chromosomes without greatly changing the original gene sequence, and controlling the newly added organs through the gene sequence of these newly added chromosomes.

At the current seminar, the "internal circulation organ", "photosynthetic cortex organ", "energy storage organ", "compressed gas ejection organ", "telecommunication organ", "mineral decomposition and absorption organ", "radiation resistance organ" have been preliminarily identified. and shell organs against high-energy particles".

These seven newly added organs were formally established as research projects.

And these newly added organs must not be controlled by the original human gene sequence, but must be controlled by the newly added gene sequence.

This happens to be in line with the chromosome increase theory, and can be combined with each other to edit the genes of the newly added organs and then combine them into new chromosomes.

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

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