Ever since taking an anthropology class in college, I have been somewhat fascinated in we share more than 99% of our genome with this species. I have always been interested in the deep questions scientist may one day be able to answer; questions such as how did life start? Or what does it mean to be human? Scientists are attempting to reconstruct the entire Neanderthal genome at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. One this genome is mapped; it could be theoretically possible to bring this extinct species back to life.
This blog will talk about what it might be like if the Neanderthals are resurrected, or they simply didn’t die off in Europe some thirty thousand years ago. Some topics include t how the general public might change there ideology on what it means to be human, or the notion of how we are different from animals. Discussions will be brought up as to whether or not issues such as racism would die off or become a lot bigger. As far as we know, Neanderthals could develop language and had brains bigger than us. They could probably interbreed with us as well. Would this archaic species then be able to blend in to our society? Would Homo sapiens see themselves as something better than this other human species, or would both species be seen as equal. This blog will try to stay away from the ethical issues that may arise from initially cloning a Neanderthal and talk about what life may be like if your fellow classmate was a different human species than you.
American Shepard
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My dog leaps
out of sage steppe
like an unexpected visitation,
like water suddenly
gushing from the plains
after months of unsuccessful drilling.
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1 comment:
Which theory about the extinction of the neanderthals do you believe or find the most reasonable or interesting? I believe that there was a violent, possible racial, war between the homo sapiens and neanderthals. I does make you wonder how different life in this world would be had the neanderthals survived extinction.
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