Anyone up to have a Neanderthal baby?

[Penguin]

If you're a young, single and adventurous female human and wondering what to do with the womb you have just lying around inside you collecting dust, an opportunity has arisen. You can bear a Neanderthal baby (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9814620/I-can-create-Neanderthal-baby-I-just-need-willing-woman.html).

This is a once in an aeon chance to have your very own bundle of fur; a little Ug Jnr with your eyes and smile but the back hair of its great-great-great-great-great (etc) grandfather.

Prof George Church of Harvard Medical School believes that he can reconstruct Neanderthal DNA, and is seeking a volunteer have the "neo-Neanderthal" embryo implanted into her uterus. Church believes that a new race of human could be beneficial if we end up facing an apocalypse at some point, so the lending of your womb could potentially save humanity. Or at the very least produce a subspecies that would be good at heavy lifting and killing the DNA-reconstructed mammoths we will inevitably recreate as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/21/neanderthal-baby-save-humanity

:o :rotfl2:
Aside from the ethical question, the article is pretty amusing, hilariously written.

[Sailor Steve]

If you're of a scientific bent and fancy participating on an equal footing, you will be entering into a long, illustrious and completely insane history of self-experimentation.
You don't have to be a scientest to engage in self-experimentation. Why, just the other day...

Never mind. :shifty:

I find Naomi McAuliffe quite funny pretty much all of the time. Hey, I wonder if she'd rent her...

Never mind.

[mookiemookie]

Much like a Skybird rant, some misunderstanding can be attributed to something getting lost in the German/English translation:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/no-harvard-geneticist-not-trying-clone-neanderthal-baby-213859546.html

(no offense intended, Sky. All in good fun)

[Betonov]

I'm from the balkans, my mother already gave birth to a neandrethal :O:

[soopaman2]

I'm from the balkans, my mother already gave birth to a neandrethal :O:


Just to make you feel good about yourself, I will describe my typical family get-together, in this case I will describe what my super Bowl party will be, considering the "passion" we have for NFL, and such.


I will spend the night screaming at the TV, and talking as if I am an expert coach. Alot of 4 letter words describing acts and genitalia will be attributed to players doing good/and or bad.

My cousin will be 6 beers too far drunk by kickoff, and losing his Christmas bonus to us in the poker game.

My uncle will be screaming about the freaking Jets, while I antagonize him with my 49ers, telling him how much more talented we are, while taking his money in Texas Hold Em.

Then my wife...

She got into football when she met me, and is a rabid Niner fan. She spews filth at the TV. I am a dirty boy, but she makes me blush at times. I did not realize how many slang words there was for genetalia, until I watched a Football game with her
Then my Uncles dad... He looks for an excuse to grab the younger in laws asses. Dirty old man, kills us in poker. But also the only one to not whine when he loses.

So, that is a typical Super Bowl Party for me.

You should see Thanksgiving! The behaviour there would predate Neanderthals.

[Penguin]

Much like a Skybird rant, some misunderstanding can be attributed to something getting lost in the German/English translation:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/no-harvard-geneticist-not-trying-clone-neanderthal-baby-213859546.html

(no offense intended, Sky. All in good fun)

Damn you mookie, with your pesky...reality..thingy:O::03:

Unfortunately the original Spiegel interview is not available online, only an article by der Spiegel which already qoutes Church (http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/genforscher-george-church-will-neandertaler-klonen-a-877554.html). (hey, with his name he would have many religious folks on his side: "Church says thisandthat" - "Oh, well then it's ok" :))

So the quote is "einen abenteuerlichen weiblichen Mensch", which the Daily Fail correctly translates as "an adventurous female human". However the latter magazine also adds "Now I need" in front of this sentence - just like the Telegraph article, to which the article I posted, links to. Der Spiegel quotes him indirectly as "Als Leihmutter bräuchte man ..." which translates to "As a surrogate mother one would need..." - quite different from "now I need" :88)
So I think the failure is less something lost in translation, more likely an abbreviation of Church's original words in combination with wrong quotation, mostly from the side of the English press. Us Germans are innocent, as usual! :know:
Though I speak out of my prolonged back, as I also didn't read the original interview - just like probably neither the Mail nor the Telegraph did.


I'm from the balkans, my mother already gave birth to a neandrethal :O:

Pff, amateur! I was born 7km from the Neandertal... Ugh, ugh! :O:

[Armistead]

Geesh, who would want to go around being called "Bigfoot" when they grow up....

We don't need to go back to that period, we deserve to either evolve and get along or die out like all previous periods....

But hey, it would make a good movie, but seems I've seen it before.

[Cybermat47]

Why in the name of God would we need Neanderthals?