Have a Neanderthal baby? Wouldn't be the craziest thing I've had inside me . . .
Posted on 01/21/2013 10:32:31 AM PST by Red Badger
They're usually thought of as a brutish, primitive species.
So what woman would want to give birth to a Neanderthal baby?
Yet this incredible scenario is the plan of one of the world’s leading geneticists, who is seeking a volunteer to help bring man’s long-extinct close relative back to life.
Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School believes he can reconstruct Neanderthal DNA and resurrect the species which became extinct 33,000 years ago.
His scheme is reminiscent of Jurassic Park but, while in the film dinosaurs were created in a laboratory, Professor Church’s ambitious plan requires a human volunteer.
He said his analysis of Neanderthal genetic code using samples from bones is complete enough to reconstruct their DNA.
He said: ‘Now I need an adventurous female human.
‘It depends on a hell of a lot of things, but I think it can be done.’
Professor Church’s plan would begin by artificially creating Neanderthal DNA based on genetic code found in fossil remains. He would put this DNA into stem cells.
These would be injected into cells from a human embryo in the early stages of life.
It is thought that the stem cells would steer the development of the hybrid embryo on Neanderthal lines, rather than human ones.
He says Neanderthals were not the lumbering brutes of the stereotype, but highly intelligent. Their brains were roughly the same size as man’s, and they made primitive tools. Cloning the caveman: Geneticist Professor George Church
Cloning the caveman: Geneticist Professor George Church
He believes his project could benefit mankind.
He told German magazine Der Spiegel: ‘Neanderthals might think differently than we do. They could even be more intelligent than us.
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I have worked in urban schools for years. I have dozens of female candidates that would be perfect visual matches for a Neanderthal. They would collectively have the same intelligence levels but one-to-one the Neanderthal would have it all over the surrogate in intelligence, looks and health :-)
****laughing****
Who (who!?) was the the middle babe’s “first”? Certainly a libtard.
Here’s what one investigator says they may have looked like...
And that we owe our own development to thousands of years of cannabalistic and sexual predation by “Neanderthals” upon early humans...
I have no idea how true any of this is...Decide for yourself...
True or not...Just because someone “can” do a thing is not the same as that thing “should” be done...
Scientific scruples always seem to lag far behind scientists “advancements”...
Have a Neanderthal baby? Wouldn't be the craziest thing I've had inside me . . .
DANG!
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