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This looks interesting and draises all sorts of moral questions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9814620/I-can-create-Neanderthal-baby-I-just-need-willing-woman.html


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:18 pm
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there has been an active breeding program in the north for years hasn't there?


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:20 pm
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Er, hang on. I may have posted too soon. 😳

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/george-church-neanderthal-baby-harvard-geneticist_n_2529182.html

I should know better than to link to Telegraph articles. Sorry, it won't happen again.


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:23 pm
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i have no idea why anyone would want to do this even if we could.


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:25 pm
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Oh...! Thought this was a singlespeed thread. Sorry.


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:27 pm
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Posted : 05/02/2013 12:27 pm
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i have no idea why anyone would want to do this even if we could.

Oh, I dunno.
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Posted : 05/02/2013 12:32 pm
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Wait, isn't that Jesus?


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:35 pm
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No, Chabal is not jesus. He's a very naughty boy.


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:38 pm
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i thought the article would have been about yoots wearing reebok classics and lonsdale tracksuits.

but, what junkyard said. Why.....?


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:38 pm
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Too late, it's been done. He only needs to visit Shadsworth in Blackburn. Oh wait, no, that's unfair to Neanderthals - at least they were intelligent and good looking...


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 12:42 pm
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There's been a secret breeding program in some areas around here, too. The results tend to hang around certain of the less salubrious pubs at the weekend.


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 1:06 pm
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There's been a secret breeding program in some areas around here, too

I thought that was in Bootle, Liverpool


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 1:12 pm
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Well George Church is an amazingly bright guy (fanastic track record) but I think that this is certainly more to do with selling his book than anything that is anywhere close to reality.


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 1:25 pm
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there has been an active breeding program in the north for years hasn't there?

Back in your box shandy drinker 😉


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 1:48 pm
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i have no idea why anyone would want to do this even if we could.

It's obvious. It is so we could ask him why they became extinct 🙄


 
Posted : 05/02/2013 2:21 pm