Why Not Bring a Neanderthal to Life? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com: "Now that the Neanderthal genome has been reconstructed, my colleague Nicholas Wade reports, a leading genome researcher at Harvard says that a Neanderthal could be brought to life with present technology for about $30 million.

So why not do it? Why not give Harvard’s George Church the money he says could be used to resurrect a Neanderthal from DNA?"
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I have been posting about this for some time, making cheap jokes along the way. But I think it is virtually certain that somebody will actually do it in the relatively near future. If Michael Crichton's logic is right, it will be about entertainment rather than pure science or the betterment of human existence.

That's right: Welcome to Neanderthal Park!