Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby 697
theodp writes "Harvard geneticist George Church recently told Der Spiegel he's close to developing the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal, at which point all he'd need is an 'adventurous human woman' to be a surrogate mother for the first Neanderthal baby to be born in 30,000 years (article in German, translation to English). Church said, 'We have lots of Neanderthal parts around the lab. We are creating Neanderthal cells. Let's say someone has a healthy, normal Neanderthal baby. Well, then, everyone will want to have a Neanderthal kid. Were they superstrong or supersmart? Who knows? But there's one way to find out.'"
30000 years? (Score:5, Funny)
With that sort of gestation time, it's no wonder Neanderthals went extinct.
Kardashian? (Score:5, Funny)
They should ask one of those Kardashian women. They'll do anything for money as long as they can put their name on it.
Re:Kardashian? (Score:5, Funny)
Plus by the looks of em they'd be genetically similar.
Re:30000 years? (Score:3, Funny)
With that sort of gestation time, it's no wonder Neanderthals went extinct.
It doesn't take that long to pop out a Nean. Apparently most of us have up to 4% of their genes already, so what's the point of the experiment? Why not have one of those Canadians mate with an Ecuadorian. The results would be so craaaaazy.
They are still alive (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Kardashian? (Score:2, Funny)
"Me Kardashian boy, you flat!" *Kabooonk!*
Shouldn't be too hard ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pretty sure we know (Score:5, Funny)
"Well I don't know about the former, but given they are all dead I'm pretty sure about the latter."
Not at all. They were superstrong and supersmart. Unfortunately for them, they were also supergullible.
Re:They are still alive (Score:3, Funny)
There's no need to insult Neaderthals like that.
I'm a Neanderthal (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pretty sure we know (Score:2, Funny)
John Kerry [youtube.com], is that you?
Re:Pretty sure we know (Score:5, Funny)
"I'll take Fiction Peddled As Fact for $400, Alex."
Re:Kardashian? (Score:0, Funny)
On the plus, in case the babies are bigger than normal, a Kardashian pussy is guaranteed to be like a slip n' slide on the way out instead of a tight, uncomfortable tunnel.
Re:Kardashian? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, dark hair and brown eyes are the plesiomorphic traits. However, their breasts probably are way too large to be primitive and their noses are too narrow too to be it too. Still, I found those breasts really interesting and to be sure about their authenticity it would be nice to examine them more in detail. If they turn out to be of the primitive type I can go primitive too; maybe I have more of those plesiomorphic traits than I ever knew.
Re:Pretty sure we know (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Kardashian? (Score:5, Funny)
So easy, a caveman could do her.
Re:30000 years? (Score:1, Funny)
Sounds Legit.