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Cloning Neanderthals


With the reconstruction of wooly mamoth DNA, scientists are talking about how they could modify the DNA in an elephant egg so that a mammoth hatched.  (That will be a surprised momma!)  A similar trick might be possible when the DNA of Neanderthals is reconstructed, which is just around the corner.  Should we do that?  Is it ethically permissable?
I say no, for the simple reason that it is entirely too likely that it would be elected president. Or that it would at least be too convenient a GOP vice presidential nominee. 

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