Cloning a Neanderthal?
– – Harvard geneticist George M. Church created waves recently when poorly-translated comments he made to a German-language magazine led to reports that he was looking for “an extremely adventurous female human” to serve as a surrogate mother for a cloned Neanderthal using developing technology. With fragments of Neanderthal DNA in fossils, Church noted that someday it might be possible to assemble them into a complete genome that could be put into a human egg to create a cloned embryo, which in turn could be put into a human surrogate mother to bring back a human relative long extinct.
Church was simply discussing technological possibilities, holding that his remarks were badly misinterpreted, and that he does not advocate cloning Neanderthals…
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January 24, 2013 at 1:37 am
It’s a good thing he clarified his point. I mean; why clone Neanderthals when we still have descendants of Gigantopithecus to scientifically validate (for the close-minded among mainstream zoologists)?
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January 24, 2013 at 8:56 pm
There are enough Neanderthals in society already…or rather, people who give them a bad name!
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