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Thank god we have these close relatives to experiment on!

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They're used for research precisely because they have a great deal of similarities to humans. Also:

- they have a short gestation period and produce lots of young making it easy to breed them

- their opex is low

- they're easy and relatively safe to handle

- they're well understood

- there are numerous genetically engineered variants are available

- And humans don't give a shit if we mass kill them because they are not overly cute.

Otherwise we'd just use humans or apes or something more similar to us.

Monkeys are used in research but they can be hard to work with. I've heard stories of flinging poop and them pulling implanted electrodes out of their brain

Who's experimenting on whom? They're working on the Ultimate Question as we speak.

;) It think we all know what the answer is.

But left the fiddly bits and fjords to another species.

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