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Originally Posted by Brenda Archer  I sort of feel like pushing at this one so I will.
I have (or did have, before my cancer) an IQ of 145. A person with an IQ of 90 is legally and ethically a free adult citizen, but when I interact with them I don't attempt to introduce any topic I couldn't discuss with a bright ten year old. There's a huge gap.
So. Maybe we're defining "intelligent" very subjectively. I doubt a Neanderthal with an IQ of at least 90 would seem any different than many eccentric humans, and might be utterly normal given a typical childhood.
Anyone raised in a primitive culture would have a tribal viewpoint, but tribal peoples are not stupid, they are just attuned to a much simpler social system. Raise their child in an urban city and you have just another typical youth.
SO much is culture. It's possible cloning a Neanderthal would, on any subject other than physiology, tell us nothing at all. |
Considering that part of IQ is environment as well as other factors .. its quite possible that cloned Neanderthal could have an IQ of 145 rather than 90.
I think the concern about its lack of evolution are really baseless. The differences genetically are too small. Maybe if someone were to argue resurrecting Homo Erectus it would be different.
It would be more like the idea of trying to clone a historical figure, Like say an Egyptian from DNA found on a mummy.