Neanderthals were sentient. How would you like to be the only member of your species brought back just to be prodded and studied. What would his/her immune system be like in relation to today’s diseases? Where would they fit in? Besides, the 0bama EPA would never allow cloning mammoths because of their carbon footprints.
“How would you like to be the only member of your species brought back just to be prodded and studied.”
Oh heck, let’s bring a bunch of ‘em back. I don’t care they have some company. They’ll all be bred into the population after a few generations anyway. American melting pot, dontcha’ know.
“0bama EPA would never allow cloning mammoths because of their carbon footprints.”
And I’ll warrant that I wouldn’t “allow” them to make any physical footprints across my precious landscaping either! Mammoth steaks would be yummy though, and I could use their trunks for garden hoses to regrow the grass that they tore up.
C’mon! Let’s give ‘em a chance. We could put ‘em on government assistance till they got on their feet. If they’re a subspecies we could interbreed with them and they’d be just like all the rest of us mongrelized American’s within a hundred years or so. If they’re a separate species, it would present an economic opportunity. We could bring back the plantation system! Instead of using us Irishmen for dangerous jobs, we could impress them danged Neanders. It ain’t like they’re human by definition.
I’m gonna’ go look for some good bottom land if this cloning business catches on.