[Captain Rhino]

Thanks. I stand corrected.. The resulting child would have mitochondrial DNA from the donor egg/surrogate mother (assuming they are one in the same).

One follow-up question. And I know this will require quite a bit of speculation since no primates have been cloned to date. And certainly nothing from long dead material.

Since the Ice Man's nuclear material has to be undamaged, the cell source would have to have been protected from the effects of intracellular freezing. (A possible source that has been mentioned is the teeth.) These cells, even if intact and undamaged are ...well, to be blunt about it,...dead, long dead. Now dead DNA can be sequenced since the underlying chemistry remains the same. Wouldn't enucleation require living nuclear materials from the Ice Man to hold up their end of the reproductive process?

(I mean, after all, even Frankenstein's monster was made of fresh corpses! Sorry... couldn't resist the parallels in the zapping imagery.)

Ahem...to return to the topic, is there an extant culturing technique that could produce the needed Ice Man nuclear material? Or do we have to come up with a Critchen DNA sequencer (a la "Jurrasic Park")so that we can simply read out the dead DNA constituents and build a fresh copy for use in the cloning?

[MHGinTN]

In all seriousness, I don't know if the testes of the iceman were frozen and thus might contain viable sperm if thawed properly, and that's the only long 'shot' I see for these strange females to get there icing on the cake. (Well, not really seriously.)