"Science should not only report success but also adversity. This failed monkey is just as important as the one that stood up. It tells us where the boundaries of this method lie."
At the twentieth minute, he flipped to that page.
It was a photo of a monkey standing.
Not a blurry video screenshot, but a high-resolution photograph printed on photo paper. The monkey's forelimbs were not holding onto anything, its hind limbs were firmly on the ground, its body upright, head slightly raised, looking at the camera.
Someone in the meeting room gasped.
"This is M7," Manstein said, "Twenty weeks after surgery, this shot—"
He flipped to the next page.
"This is M7 walking."
