This should never have gotten past ethical review. It’s the sort of shit that gives the word science a bad name.

And the payoff was...what, exactly? We already knew that ARHGAP11B would promote a bigger brain size and neocortex folding, so the theoretical benefit is really zero. We’re precisely no closer to understanding the history of human evolution.

So what practical use is creating monkeys with more human like brains? Winning a research grant? An award? Cheap labour?

How big does your brain have to be before you can see that this is a terrible idea?