Five years ago 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut partnered with the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany to sequence the full genetic code of a Neanderthal woman who died 30,000 years ago. Zach Zorich writes:
[John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin], believes the barriers to Neanderthal cloning will come down. "We are going to bring back the mammoth...the impetus against doing Neanderthal because it is too weird is going to go away." He doesn't think creating a Neanderthal clone is ethical science, but points out that there are always people who are willing to overlook the ethics. "In the end," Hawks says, "we are going to have a cloned Neanderthal, I'm just sure of it."Read the complete article here.
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