'Adventurous' Woman Needed As Surrogate For The First Neanderthal Baby In 30,000 Years

[the_windwalker]

Originally Posted by dub dub II

there's a reason neanderthals died out...it'd be like breeding them back into existence just so we can enslave them...

then we'd have another revolution on our hands...

"back of the bus, neandy..."

You're far more correct than you think. There certainly is a reason they died out, and we're it. But, it wasn't a matter of enslaving them. Seems we were not as enlightened when we first started out some 42,000 years ago.

[the_windwalker]

Originally Posted by Hot_Handz

OK???

What are you trying to say here?

Should be fairly obvious.

Neanderthal continues to exist as a part of the majority of modern humans, along with Cro-magnon.

[Old Army Soldier]

Originally Posted by the_windwalker

Should be fairly obvious.

Neanderthal continues to exist as a part of the majority of modern humans, along with Cro-magnon.

I think modern Europeans have 2% of Neanderthal in them. I remember reading that somewhere from a science digest.

[bchris02]

Evolution weeded out the Neanderthals for a reason. We are playing a very dangerous game when we start doing stuff like this.

With liberals, nothing surprises me.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Kenneth-Kaunda

I"ll give it a try! , lol

Hey Harvard geneticist George Church, get a basic cable package and stop wasting your time!



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[Widowmaker2k]

I'm not saying we should or shouldn't clone a neanderthal, but there are some very serious ramifications here. First off, is the surrogate mom the legal guardian of the child? Is neanderthal immediately a ward of the state or the college? I mean, considering the immense amount of resources invested in creating a neo-neanderthal, the investors would need some kind of return, presumably in scientific research/knowledge, but what's the limit? A neanderthal is a human being, probably not even a separate species if interbreeding is possible. Human beings have intrinsic natural rights, which would seem to prevent an entire life-time of being studied and experimented on (without consent). Also, think of the developmental psychological issues such a child would endure. She'd never have a chance to live anything resembling a normal life. She would live her whole life feeling different from everybody else, and she'd be right. Could you put a neanderthal in school with other children? Are there any diseases or allergies that are different than for homo sapiens?

As something of a science geek, I would be absolutely fascinated by a modern living neanderthal, but as something of a humanitarian, I can't help but feel like we'd be creating something unnatural and ultimately something of a monster.