[Red Badger]

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Wanted: 'Adventurous woman' to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby

Neanderthals have been extinct for 33,000 years, but George Church, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School, believes he can bring them back with the help of a surrogate human mother.

[Red Badger]

GGG Ping!.................

[reefdiver]

Someone put Him in touch with Nancy P.

[PapaNew]

Nephilim coming back. I believe it’s Biblically prophesied for the last days which we are definitely in. Goliath was one.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Why is this legal?

[Gen.Blather]

Let’s suppose he has normal intelligence. Let’s even suppose that his face isn’t ape-like. Neanderthals had significantly different dimensions. Their forearms where shorter than their upper arms. He’s likely to be very ugly by anybody’s standards. What will life be like for somebody whose nearest relative died 33,000 years ago? What will he think about those who created him and then put him in a world where he is the ugliest man alive. Even if he has a great personality, how will near universal rejection affect him? What happens when he wants to mate? What will his children look like? And, suppose he has no social consciousness at all? What if he isn’t even close to human? What then? Just because you can do something does not mean you should.

[lightman]

He doesn’t need to bother....we have one already...

in the White House.

[verga]

His scheme is reminiscent of Jurassic Park

To quote the character Ian Malcolm from the same movie: scientists spend a lot of time asking can we, instead of should we.

[demshateGod]

If they do figure out how to do it, they’ll discover the Neanderthal looks just like a normal human.

[concerned about politics]

Neanderthal DNA isn't human. Wouldn't that be like trying to cross a cat with a dog?
Monsanto has crossed animal DNA with plant DNA and we're eating their inventions as food. No one knows what will happen to future generations of humans because of it. Babies, someday, may be born with fish heads.
This experiment is going to create some kind of animal/human species. I think it's creepy. The creature will be something like Hollywood would use in one of their "Gut 'im like a pig" scare flicks.

[Heartlander]

[PGR88]

we volunteer!

[Michael Barnes]

They better check the mothers political leanings carefully before trying this, she might abort the damn thing.

[elcid1970]

Yabbadabbadoo!!!

[MaxMax]

Congratulations, It's a Ape.

Idiots are still looking for that impossible missing link.
Now playing God to invent proof of evolution.

[Texas Fossil]

There are scientists who state that DNA is passed bi-driectionally from mother to child. I.E., if a woman conceives a child and carries the child, she also receives some of the child’s DNA in her brain.

Now, there are plenty of stupid women who would jump at the chance to do something like this, but it is pretty stupid.

[RicocheT]

I am all for it. The men would be fantastic professional football or hockey players with that upper body strength. The women would be as pretty as Michelle Obama so would find mates.

[Cyber Liberty]

I haven’t scrolled down the comments yet, but I wonder how many variations there are of this:

“Sandra Fluke’s available.”

[onedoug]

Neanderthals became extinct for a reason. Leave it, and them there.

[a fool in paradise]

This isn’t a PING...

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.