Understatement

From the latest mad-scientist story at the Times:

If the Neanderthal genome were fully recovered, it might in principle be possible to bring the species back from extinction by inserting the Neanderthal genome into a human egg and having volunteers bear Neanderthal infants. There would, however, be great technical and ethical barriers to any such venture.

However.

Comments

[Jody]

That? Makes me smile real big.

V. v. funny.

[Kate]

There's this weird program called "cousins" where they tried to recruit women to bear great ape babies, as most of them are nearing extinction thanks to us.

I just love how there is this expectation that there would be "good female recruits" to serve as vessels for experimentation. As a scientist myself, I don't find it funny. It makes me angry.

[ozma]

Darn those ethics. It sounds like such a cool idea.