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The entire process seems to have started in 1923, when a biologist named Walter Finkler reported that he had managed to successfully transplant the heads of insects. He’d been working with water boatmen, meal worms, and common butterflies – both in adult and grub form. The transplantation process was not complex. He’d grab two insects, cut off their heads with sharp scissors, and switch them. The fluid that the insects themselves leaked cemented the new heads in place. After a little time -- a 1923 article says a few weeks -- the insects were healed up and doing whatever their new heads told them to do. Finkler claimed that the heads of female insects on male bodies continued female behavior, and the head of one species of butterfly kept the habits of its own species, even when its body belonged to a different species.
Most disturbing of all, the brains don’t have to necessarily be added to the head part of the insect. While studying how certain moth pupae know when to turn into full-grown moths, researchers had a hunch that the pupae depended on getting through a winter first. This meant that the pupae had to be exposed to very cold temperatures, or at least their brains did. The scientists grabbed some moth pupae brains, chilled them down, and stuck them in the abdomens of pupae that had never been chilled. Sure enough, the loose brains started releasing hormones that causes the moths to develop. How they managed to go on with brains in their abdomens isn't discussed.
Pretty soon someone will be grafting multiple asses onto monkeys, or something.
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