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Re:Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct h... by User23 on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:34PM (#33069852)
Is there enough extant Neanderthal DNA in some Homo Sapiens lineages to restore Homo Neanderthalensis by back crossing? Actually doing so would almost certainly be highly unethical, but I still wonder if it’s possible.
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Re:Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct h... by BurningFrog on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:45PM (#33070037)
Probably not.

But I think we have pretty complete Neanderthal DNA from fossils, so, with a few more decades of gene engineering, they could probably be created.

Then I guess we'd have to ask them if their creation was ethical :)

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