So Easy a Caveman could do it!

[NoVaguy]

Scientists in Germany Draft Neanderthal Genome

"Dr. George Church, a leading genome researcher at the Harvard Medical School, said Thursday that a Neanderthal could be brought to life with present technology for about $30 million."

Who's gonna pony up for their own Caveman?

 

[scarphe]

since they are close to humans genetically can we use their organs?

 

[Neo_Version 7]

Wasn't this a movie with the guy from the Mummy?

 

[Flambeur]

paging Elon Musk?

 

[crazyquik]

There's probably money in the stimulus package for it.

. . .there is no significant trace of Neanderthal genes in modern humans.

 

[redcaimen]

Your reality show would make the 30 million back in no time.

 

[acidboy]

hell, profits from merchandising and tie-ups with McDonalds is sure to be HUGE

 

[JLibourel]

Of course, how "human" a lot of these pre-humans appear depends a lot on how they are reconstructed. If they are given the hair patterns of modern humans (hairless or sparsely haired over most of the body) and everted lips, they can look very like modern humans. I have seen reconstructions of young Neanderthal women that looked like someone I would definitely hit on when I was younger and hornier after a beer or two or three. In general, most modern reconstructions of Neanderthals make them look much more refined and similar to modern humans than the brutish images Charles Knight used to paint of them. Likewise, I have seen reconstructions of **** Erectus that were so human-looking that if you put a baseball cap on his head and set him in a dimly lit bar, people would probably think he was merely an ill-favored chap of indeterminate racial origins.

Conversely, I have seen reconstructions of Erecti and (to a lesser extent) Neanderthals that gave them full body hair, no lips and made them look very ape-like.

I wonder if the Neanderthals were really all that different from us. There is some suggestion they were very strong for their size and that it is unlikely they were exterminated by "moderns."

 

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7

Wasn't this a movie with the guy from the Mummy?

Encino Man! XD