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Thursday, July 20, 2006

News Stone Age Shocker

Posted by Lance Chess on Thu, Jul 20 at 1:20 PM

The NY Times is reporting that scientists are planning to rebuild the Neanderthal genome.

From the Times Article:

If the Neanderthal genome were fully recovered, it might in principle be possible to bring the species back from extinction by inserting the Neanderthal genome into a human egg and having volunteers bear Neanderthal infants. There would, however, be great technical and ethical barriers to any such venture.

I can’t wait. I’m kind of thinking it’s not going to make a big difference, sociologically.

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yeah, and they kill us with their superior strength and violent mating habits. I think this has already happened in sci-fi movies, like, 63439584958 times. learn people! learn!

Posted by darren | July 20, 2006 2:33 PM

Hey, scientists? Cure for AIDS? Alternative fuels? Maybe you should work on these before bringing back cavemen? Just an idea.

Posted by Donnie | July 20, 2006 2:57 PM

I hereby offer my girlfriend's womb for this Neanderthal baby.

I ain't raising no retard child though, that's up to the scientists.

Posted by automator | July 20, 2006 3:41 PM

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