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SCIENTIST CLAIMS HE CAN BRING BACK NEANDERTHALS
DAILY MAIL UK via Barbwire ^ | DAILY MAIL UK 20 January 2013/UPDATED DAILY MAIL UK 1 February 2016 via Barbwire 22 July 2016 | BY ALLAN HALL FOR MAILONLINE AND FIONA MACRAE FOR THE DAILY MAIL via Barbwire LEE DUIGON

Posted on 07/26/2016 8:25:00 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

All he needs is “an adventurous female” to be a surrogate mother, says a scientist at Harvard Medical School, and he’s off to the races on a plan to resurrect the extinct Neanderthals.

He thinks he has enough Neanderthal DNA that he can “reconstruct” the whole DNA strand. Would that mean filling the little gaps with, say, frog DNA? It worked in Jurassic Park.

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. You’d think it would be–well, cruel–to bring to life a being who would be the only one of his kind in all the world. Like, what’s the poor Neanderthal supposed to do, after they get done experimenting on him? If they ever get done. If he’s ever permitted to have a life of his own, it that were even possible.

So why do this? The prefesser explains:

“When the time comes to deal with… getting off the planet, it’s conceivable that their [Neanderthals’] way of thinking could be beneficial.”

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To: Fractal Trader

He will be a star.
Could be an MMA or boxing champ, football star, porn star... who knows, maybe even a scientist - they did have bigger brains than us.


61 posted on 07/26/2016 9:53:49 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Fractal Trader

Pffft...I’ve been watching Neanderthals at the DNC.


62 posted on 07/26/2016 9:58:29 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Fractal Trader

Excellent idea.


63 posted on 07/26/2016 10:05:16 PM PDT by Neanderthal
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To: Fractal Trader

The NFL would probably fund the research as Neanderthals would make great linemen and blocking backs.


64 posted on 07/26/2016 10:07:24 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Fractal Trader

I never left.


65 posted on 07/26/2016 10:08:34 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Fractal Trader

I thought they were here. I thought some of them spoke at the Democrat National Convention, and some of them gave news coverage to the same convention this week.


66 posted on 07/26/2016 10:19:16 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Fractal Trader

too late, Neanderthals are already here....(he just hasn’t met my last girlfriend is all)


67 posted on 07/26/2016 10:22:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Crucial

LOL!


68 posted on 07/26/2016 10:37:41 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Fractal Trader

All they have to do is go to Philadelphia this week - no need to raise from eggs. They’re fully formed there.


69 posted on 07/26/2016 11:13:01 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for anyone but Trump is a vote FOR Hillary, or a vote to ENABLE Hillary. Think about it.)
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To: Fractal Trader

If Church wants to find Neanderthals he could just look
in a Harvard faculty lounge.


70 posted on 07/26/2016 11:49:30 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Maybe they became extinct for damn good reason? This idiot should be stopped from messing with this voodoo.


71 posted on 07/27/2016 1:45:26 AM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: Fractal Trader

They will probably be sienstists.


72 posted on 07/27/2016 3:24:23 AM PDT by ravenwolf (uakingua)
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To: Fractal Trader

So he would bring back someone who would, in all probability, look different in a really bad way. Imagine growing up feeling like you are the ugly duckling. Imagine the impact of how other children would make fun of him, or worse, her. This is a special kind of abuse.

Incidentally, we’re talking about more than brow ridges. Their forearms were shorter than their upper arms and that’s just one of the physical differences. Have a heart, science, don’t bring an unloved child into the world who will suffer cruelly beyond what most of us would ever encounter.


73 posted on 07/27/2016 3:45:21 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: HHFi

More democrat voters.


74 posted on 07/27/2016 4:16:27 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Rurudyne

That would work! Lol!


75 posted on 07/27/2016 4:19:41 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: Fractal Trader
All he needs is “an adventurous female” to be a surrogate mother, says a scientist at Harvard Medical School, and he’s off to the races on a plan to resurrect the extinct Neanderthals.

Look no further!


76 posted on 07/27/2016 4:27:25 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: Fractal Trader

please let this be privately funded...

sheesh.


77 posted on 07/27/2016 6:19:27 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Fractal Trader

We already have them, they behead priests.


78 posted on 07/27/2016 6:27:51 AM PDT by mancini
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To: Fractal Trader

The Almas in the Caucasus Mountains, seen as recently as the 1980s, may be surviving Neanderthals.


79 posted on 07/27/2016 8:32:33 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: TigerClaws

I was just wondering why an evolutionist would want to reintroduce an extinct species that was obviously unfit to survive..... and then you enlightened me.


80 posted on 07/27/2016 8:45:10 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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