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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau  Most of the controversy isn't about their genetic makeup, even though that's a small part of it.
What you'd be missing by cloning a Neanderthal would be their culture, tribal habits, hunting patterns, etc. You can't clone behavior. The Neanderthal child would grow up exposed to moderm man's culture, not Neanderthal culture.
It'd end up being a freak in a sideshow. |
Yes, I should have mentioned this. Any benefits we get from producing a Neanderthal child would be purely physiological. Anything psychological would come from genetic predispositions, but they would manifest themselves in a
modern context (For example: maybe Neanderthals enjoy grooming each other ... but rather than leaping on your back and running his fingers through your hair ... he may just go to school to become a hairdresser.)