Can We Clone a Neanderthal?
And if we can, should we? And if we did, what could you do with it? Keep it around to do household chores? Teach it to cook dinner and wash the dishes? Could you sell it to a neighbor? Or would it have rights? Also, consider this:
Many of the differences between a Neanderthal clone and a modern human would be due to genetic changes our species has undergone since Neanderthals became extinct. “In the last 30,000 years we count about 2,500 to 3,000 events that resulted in positive functional changes [in the human genome],” says Hawks. Modern humans, he says, are as different from Homo sapiens who lived in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago, as Neolithic people would have been from Neanderthals.
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To the reader who comes up with the cleverest use of a Neanderthal
clone. Leave your submissions in the comment section below.
Survivor contestant
Have him play the ape in a remake of King Kong.
Let him star in Geico commercials.
IPCC climate change panel member. What else is an ice-age Neanderthal good for?
Use him as a guard dog.
no,its what we will like when obama gets done with us..
Run him for Congress. He will fit right in.
If I cloned a prehistoric Neanderthal, I’d use him to replace Congressional Neanderthal, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla., 8th District).
Put him in charge of the IPCC. What better way to prepare for the next Ice Age — which I think is over due.
Have him tour with Al Gore. Gore could tell everyone how bad warming is and the Neanderthal could tell everyone what it’s like to freeze to death.
Then let the audience vote: (a) which of the speakers on the stage is the real Neanderthal? And (b) which one is right?
Let him be an anchor on MSNBC.
Good thought Stephen. It would greatly improve the level of discourse.
Obama can replace his teleprompter with a Neanderthal man. The rhetoric coming out of his mouth might be an improvement.
Make him a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Use him to replace Joe Biden. He’ll make fewer gaffes.
Tour guide at the local natural history museum.
Let him star in a sequel to Encino Man while reprising the original cast of the first movie (Pauly Shore, Sean Astin Brendan Fraser), however, this time let the original Encino Man (Brendan Fraser) show the new guy the ropes. Instant blockbuster! (just like the original?)
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they should mak him a dog
sorry make him a dog