First, I'm highly dubious that a reconstructed Neanderthal embryo is really that viable: look at the success rates of assisted reproduction when the parents are alive and in the room, let alone dead for tens of millenia!
Second, what ethics board would approve this experiment? There are risks to the surrogate mother, and, even if the child did come to term, what are the chances that it would be physically healthy? What about its psychological health?
As with mammoths, I can see the appeal, but this is about human beings.
> look at the success rates of assisted reproduction when the parents are alive and in the room
What are the success rates?
> Second, what ethics board would approve this experiment?
Probably one outside of the United States. Which makes me excited to meet a Neanderthal, but very worried about their treatment in a country that would go forward with this experiment.
[+] [-] threedaymonk|13 years ago|reply
Second, what ethics board would approve this experiment? There are risks to the surrogate mother, and, even if the child did come to term, what are the chances that it would be physically healthy? What about its psychological health?
As with mammoths, I can see the appeal, but this is about human beings.
[+] [-] pavel_lishin|13 years ago|reply
What are the success rates?
> Second, what ethics board would approve this experiment?
Probably one outside of the United States. Which makes me excited to meet a Neanderthal, but very worried about their treatment in a country that would go forward with this experiment.
[+] [-] nonamegiven|13 years ago|reply
That guy's going to have issues.
[+] [-] nekojima|13 years ago|reply
http://gawker.com/5977130/could-you-be-the-adventurous-woman...
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/genforscher-georg... (in German)