Harvard - Wanted: 'Adventurous woman' to give birth to Neanderthal man

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<p>texaspg, That came from a blog, but there is a lot of information about the complex nature of Neanderthals (beyond the “me big brute” stuff). And just so it’s clear, I am in no way endorsing this reseacher’s idea!</p>

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<p>The photo of the Neanderthal in the link had an uncanny resemblance to Mel Brooks, hmmm I always thought his humor was a bit primitive.</p>

<p>Anyway, humans already have up to 4% Neanderthal DNA due to previous interbreeding. Not sure the other 96% is all that different.</p>

<p>[Most</a> People Carry Neanderthal Genes - WSJ.com](<a href=“Most People Carry Neanderthal Genes - WSJ”>Most People Carry Neanderthal Genes - WSJ)</p>

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<p>One difficulty is that the Neanderthal baby would almost certainly be considered fully human under the law - with full legal and citizenship rights. The same legal rights as any modern test-tube baby. Thus all sorts of subject protection/medical experimentation laws would apply and very likely stop the experiment long before it ever got started.</p>

<p>A modern human looking at a Neanderthal family walking down the street would very likely never consider the possibility that they weren’t fully human - rather ugly and heavily-built (big-boned) humans with huge noses and faces that in profile look quite pulled forward, but human nevertheless.</p>

<p>Conversely, the Neanderthals would view us as rather ugly and frail-looking humans with tiny noses and a pushed-in face that is smashed flat into the same plane as the top of the skull, but human nevertheless.</p>

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<p>well they will have the same rights…but treated fairly, I dunno.</p>

<p>[Geico</a> apology - YouTube](<a href=“Geico apology - YouTube”>Geico apology - YouTube)</p>

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<p>[It</a> Could Work](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>

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<p>[Introducing</a> Your Inner Neanderthal ? History in the Headlines](<a href=“http://www.history.com/news/introducing-your-inner-neanderthal]Introducing”>http://www.history.com/news/introducing-your-inner-neanderthal)</p>

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<p>Sounds like a headline from The Onion…</p>

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Someone did. Three of them. Quite good actually. [The</a> Neanderthal Parallax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax]The”>The Neanderthal Parallax - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>Especially when dressed like [url=<a href=“http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/255/068/82408088_display_image.jpg?1314901408]this[/url”>http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/255/068/82408088_display_image.jpg?1314901408]this[/url</a>].</p>

<p>(The common stereotypes regarding intelligence are not necessarily true in their case either.)</p>

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<p>Should not require that much science. Let the OWS morons come back for 10 months and plenty of Neanderthal babies could be collected at the gates.</p>

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<p>[Harvard</a> professor blasts Web rumor | Boston Herald](<a href=“http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/harvard_professor_blasts_web_rumor]Harvard”>http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/harvard_professor_blasts_web_rumor)</p>

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<p>^ Glad to hear that.</p>

<p>Forget about Neanderthals. I would like to see dodos, passenger pigeons, wooly mammoths…</p>

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<p>^ and pterodactyls</p>

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<p>“They’re usually thought of as a brutish, primitive species.
So what woman would want to give birth to a Neanderthal baby?”</p>

<p>Kris Jenner is reading this thinking, “Been there, done that.”</p>

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<p>CBS news has Prof Church saying this: (love the diversity comment)</p>

<p>When asked whether creating a Neanderthal for the sake of scientific curiosity is ethically problematic, Church defended the research saying that the main goal is to increase diversity.</p>

<p>Church goes on to say that a cloned Neanderthal would probably not exist alone in a laboratory, but that scientist would certainly have to “create a cohort” to give the clone a sense of identity.</p>

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<p>^Wait…I swear that’s dialog from [Bride</a> of Frankenstein (4/10) Movie CLIP - Pretorius Has a Plan (1935) HD - YouTube](<a href=“Bride of Frankenstein (4/10) Movie CLIP - Pretorius Has a Plan (1935) HD - YouTube”>Bride of Frankenstein (4/10) Movie CLIP - Pretorius Has a Plan (1935) HD - YouTube)</p>

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<p>“Church defended the research saying that the main goal is to increase diversity.”</p>

<p>And a new “hook” is born.</p>

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<p>There are also engineered Neanderthals in the “Thursday Next” novels by Jasper Fforde.</p>

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<p>You’d need the right lawyer to handle all the legal aspects of this:</p>

<p>[SNL</a> - Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer](<a href=“http://videosift.com/video/snl-Unfrozen-Caveman-Lawyer]SNL”>SNL - Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer)</p>

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<p>Thanks Garland…one of Phil Hartman’s best gags EVER.</p>