From
http://www.sitchin.com/primate.htm: THE CASE OF THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED PRIMATE
"Ninharsag and her crew are closer to being vindicated as time passes, and soon your theories will no longer be theories!"
So wrote to me a fan (Jack Byrd in Virginia) in a congratulatory letter accompanying a newspaper clipping headlined "Genetically modified primate is world's first." It was the report about the successful birth of ANDi ('inserted DNA' spelled backward), a baby rhesus monkey "created" by a group of researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Center, whose genetic makeup was modified to include the genes from a jellyfish that make it glow in the dark.
Mice have been previously genetically modified for medical research. But because the rhesus monkey is roughly 95 percent akin to humans genetically, "I think we are at an extraordinary moment in the history of humans, " said the chief researcher Dr. Gerald Schatten.
I was of course pleased to be congratulated. Yet, I wrote back to my fan with thanks coupled with an admonition. "While it is nice to get such reassuring compliments," I wrote to him, "I am trying to get my fans to write about it to others, and first and foremost to the newspapers that carried the reports. In this case, the Associated Press report stresses that it is the world's FIRST genetically modified primate; what a Letter to the Editor should point out is that according to Sumerian texts reported by Zecharia Sitchin in his books The 12th Planet and Genesis Revisited, ADAM was the first genetically modified primate, some 300,000 years ago!"
The news about the genetically modified rhesus monkey was just one item in an avalanche of reports on human genetics, cloning etc. in which the names of Enki and Ninharsag could well replace the names of Dr. Schatten, Dr. Phyllis Leppert (and their other modern colleagues). So please -- TELL IT TO THE NEWSPAPERS!
February 2001 Z. Sitchin
There are others out there who also write about it.
But in an ironic twist.
Heavy Metal magazine, of all things, had a graphic novelisation of a story where mankind is dying.
So man goes throughout the galaxy in search of ways to prolong our kind.
Eventually they find a suitable species on another planet and right before genetically modifying it, they find that sometime in the distant past, a high tech civilisation did the same to us.
So they attempt to strip the 'alien' DNA out and recreate the 'proto-human' to prolong mankind.
Everyone dies, but the experiment is automatic, and continues.
The experiment finishes, and the pod it is in motors out of a dropship on a suitable planet surface.
The door of teh pod opens, and out steps and angry macaque.