{"id":2802,"date":"2009-02-14T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T13:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2009-02-14T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T13:45:40","slug":"bringing-back-a-neanderthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Back a Neanderthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z021409neanderthal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/13\/why-not-bring-a-neanderthal-to-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this article<\/strong><\/a>, a leading genome researcher at <strong>Harvard<\/strong> says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>.<strong>..a Neanderthal could be brought to life with present technology for about $30 million.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoa!\u00a0 Bring a<strong> cave man<\/strong> to life!\u00a0 At least that&#8217;s the imagine that initially ran through my mind.\u00a0 How cool would that be?<\/p>\n<p>But then I gave it another second to sink in.\u00a0 We wouldn&#8217;t be bringing a <strong>cave man<\/strong> back, we&#8217;d be artificially creating a life that would then be studied and probed and whose only purpose was scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>Just because we have the ability to do something doesn&#8217;t mean we should.\u00a0 Besides, once the scientists had tired of studying <strong>Mr. Neanderthal<\/strong>, what could he do?\u00a0 <strong>Geico<\/strong> commercials?<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks and a raised cave man club to <a href=\"http:\/\/billcrider.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bill Crider<\/strong><\/a> for the link.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article, a leading genome researcher at Harvard says &#8230;a Neanderthal could be brought to life with present<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}