Should We Clone Neanderthals?

· The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles.
http://www.archaeology.org/1003/etc/neanderthals.html

by Zach Zorich

If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut. Over the past 4 years those beads have been gathering tiny fragments of DNA from samples of dissolved organic materials, including pieces of Neanderthal bone. Genetic sequences have given paleoanthropologists a new line of evidence for testing ideas about the biology of our closest extinct relative.
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Newly developed techniques could make cloning Neanderthal cells or body parts a reality within a few years. The ability to use the genes of extinct hominins is going to force the field of paleoanthropology into some unfamiliar ethical territory. There are still technical obstacles, but soon it could be possible to use that long-extinct genome to safely create a healthy, living Neanderthal clone. Should it be done?
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"If your experiment succeeds and you generate a Neanderthal who talks,
you have violated every ethical rule we have,
and if your experiment fails...well. It's a lose-lose."
—James Noonan

"This is a species-altering event,
it changes the way we are creating a new generation."
—Lori Andrews

"I'm convinced that if one were to raise a Neanderthal in a modern
human family he would function just like everybody else,
I have no reason to doubt he could speak and do all the things
that modern humans do."[...so much for evolution.]
-Trenton Holliday

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Royal Family Clones

· Picture Evidence.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222921/The-throne-clones-How-Royal-Family-inherited-just-titles.html
http://elluminati.blogspot.com/2009/10/royal-family-clones-picture-evidence.html

[Left: Mary (1867-1953), King George V's consort. Right: granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II.]


[Left: Edward VII (1841-1910). Right: great-great-grandson Charles.]


[Left: King Edward I (1239-1307). Right: Prince William, his 21 times great-grandson.]


[Left: Princess Mary (1867-1953). Right: Harry, her great-great-grandson.]


[Left: Queen Elizabeth II -1930. Right: her granddaughter Lady Louise Windsor, Prince Edward's daughter.]

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Chinese breakthrough with mice may mean cloning man is closer[!!!]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/nationworld/sfl-tc-nw-stem-cells-0725-0726sbjul26,0,6810838.story

News that Chinese researchers have succeeded in growing healthy living mice from mouse skin cells takes scientists a significant step closer to human cloning[!!!], experts say, and thus figures to reignite an ethics debate.
The new feat — in which animals were grown from cells that had been reverted to embryos — is different from cloning.
Cloning, in which the nucleus is removed from a cell and implanted in a fertilized egg, has never been achieved in humans. Nor has the new technique — using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells — been tested in them. Because that process works in mice, however, it should work in humans.
"We now have the technology to create iPS cells from skin or hair follicles," said Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology Inc., who was not involved in the studies. "...What's very troubling is that if you have a piece of skin from anybody — Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson — you could create a child."
The researchers involved in the new studies said it should not be tried on humans.
"It would not be ethical to attempt to use iPS cells in human reproduction," said Fanyi Zeng of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Her study, she added, was "in no way meant as a first step in that direction."

[Source: sun-sentinel.com]