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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. |
Not necessarily. Hell, you could get one of those tribes in the Amazon to raise them if wanted. The culture wouldn't be there, but we would absolutely have answers about their intelligence, whether they could produce offspring with modern humans, etc.
They wouldn't have to be sideshow freaks. It's all up to us.