wonder which scientist is going to resurrect the Neanderthal race and doom us all seriously we have the technology
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this is our moonshot "oh you piloted a thing to the moon thats cute we resurrected a race thats been dead for 20 thousand years" we cant let china take this one guys this is the next Civ Wonder
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Europeans cary an average of 1% to 4% neanderthal DNA, but no single person has every remaining fragment of the neanderthal genome. We could set up a dating site that allows users to choose mates with the highest % so they could breed true.
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we can pull this stuff out of bones now if we've got petrous bones for neanderthals we probably have their whole genomes
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Yes, that’s how the H. neanderthalensis % in modern human populations are calculated. There’s still the technical problem of getting a living hominid to inherit the known neanderthal genes.
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Future reprogenic tech would surely speed up the process, but sequencing and conventional breeding are tools that exist today.
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Ah, I see what you mean. What do you make of this thread?https://twitter.com/djinnius/status/1111235823540883456?s=19 …
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