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To: SunkenCiv

how long will it be before the Neanderthal is cloned?


5 posted on 02/07/2009 8:44:17 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Won’t happen. The Neandertal genome *may* be reconstructed in entire (though I very much doubt it), and eventually technology may appear which allows stored genome sequences to be reproduced into a double helix from a data set, but it’s not likely that such an approach would / could be used to produce a living Neandertal — other than those of us (a billion or two, or more) who are descended from Neandertal.


15 posted on 02/08/2009 7:39:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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