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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9190817" data-attributes="member: 508">I'm now reading Lucy by Laurence Gonzales.&nbsp; In it, a primatologist flees the war-torn Congo but on the way checks in with another primatologist a day away and finds the guerillas have already been there and slain him.&nbsp; But she finds his 14-year-old daughter Lucy still alive and takes her along, back through London and on to her home in Chicago, where she decides she'll adopt the girl.&nbsp; And then she discovers that Lucy's father was performing genetic experiments in the Congo, altering a female bonobo's DNA structure enough that she'd be able to breed with a human.&nbsp; Lucy is the result: his sperm artificially inseminated into the female bonobo.&nbsp; As a result, Lucy - who appears totally human, but is having a hard time adjusting to human civilization after having lived her whole life in the jungle - has some extraordinary abilities relating to her half-bonobo heritage: she can pick up signals from the Stream, the means by which animals communicate with each other (even across species lines), she's incredibly strong, and she has incredible senses (when compared the human norm).&nbsp; Now she and Jenny, the primatologist who's adopting her, live in fear that someone will discover Lucy's secret and she'll spend her life in a cage undergoing experiments.&nbsp; It's been a really good read thus far, and I'm only about 70 pages in.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 9190817, member: 508"] I'm now reading [i]Lucy[/i] by Laurence Gonzales. In it, a primatologist flees the war-torn Congo but on the way checks in with another primatologist a day away and finds the guerillas have already been there and slain him. But she finds his 14-year-old daughter Lucy still alive and takes her along, back through London and on to her home in Chicago, where she decides she'll adopt the girl. And then she discovers that Lucy's father was performing genetic experiments in the Congo, altering a female bonobo's DNA structure enough that she'd be able to breed with a human. Lucy is the result: his sperm artificially inseminated into the female bonobo. As a result, Lucy - who appears totally human, but is having a hard time adjusting to human civilization after having lived her whole life in the jungle - has some extraordinary abilities relating to her half-bonobo heritage: she can pick up signals from the Stream, the means by which animals communicate with each other (even across species lines), she's incredibly strong, and she has incredible senses (when compared the human norm). Now she and Jenny, the primatologist who's adopting her, live in fear that someone will discover Lucy's secret and she'll spend her life in a cage undergoing experiments. It's been a really good read thus far, and I'm only about 70 pages in. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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