Harvard Medical School professor George Church is coming forward to clear up rumors that he’s almost done creating artificial neanderthal DNA based on the genetic code found in bone samples and is looking to bring one of our ancient relatives to life. The original story which went viral claimed the professor now needs a fertile woman who’s willing to be artificially inseminated with the species which has not been present on the earth for 33,000 years. Professor Church is responding saying the internet simply ran with the story, but he was only theorizing about bringing back neanderthals with no real plans to do it.
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Neanderthal hybrids already exist now and walk the earth.
Asians and white Europeans.
Some of them are even advanced enough to consider themselves highly intelligent and can grasp somewhat complex emotions such as racism and can successfully type on a computer, like the ‘anonymous’ user above.
“Researchers compared the Neanderthal genome with the genomes of five living people: one San from southern Africa, one Yoruba from West Africa, one Papua New Guinean, one Han Chinese and one French person. Scientists discovered that 1% to 4% of the latter three DNA samples is shared with Neanderthals — proof that Neanderthals and early modern humans interbred. The absence of Neanderthal DNA in the genomes of the two present-day Africans indicates that interbreeding occurred after some root population of early modern humans left Africa but before the species evolved into distinct groups in Europe and Asia.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1987568,00.html#ixzz2IoujRGFZ
I have actually read this report extensively. The conclusion you felt comfortable with posting was a very silly conclusion to take from the work.
You trying to defend yourself is silly.
There is Neanderthal DNA in the Asian and Caucasian code base.
This is fact.
lest you think 1% to 4% genetic deviation is a trivial amount, consider this: the human code base is 98.5% analogous to chimpanzees with genetic variation of about 7%.
I am a Han Chinese.
Looks like my brother..