RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER

Neanderthal Power

News today is that German scientists plan to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome. This is great news! In case you didn’t know, humans were once just a single species of mostly hairless, bipedal, swollen brained ape. As recently as 30,000 years ago, we shared the terran landscape with completely different species of comparably intelligent (if not more intelligent) species. Others existed as well… the Indonesian “hobbit” for example.

Actually if you believe those crazy “evolutionary scientists,” as recently as 70,000 years ago, our species nearly went extinct. Reduced to a few thousand feeble scavengers, homo sapiens stood at the brink of oblivion. Think of all that would have been lost. Also think of the whole host of social problems that we’d have had we – as a species – not made it out as the last hominid standing. Most likely, there would be a dominant, rich species and a subjugated poor one. But instead of bickering over imagined differences as we do with the biologically meaningless, yet socially persistent concept of race, there really would be a difference between us and an entirely different species.

What if this other species lacked language? What if they were smarter? What sort of internet sites would be devoted to Neanderthal fetishists? What would Rick Santorum say? The questions are endless. With the reconstruction of the Neanderthal genome, many of these what-ifs can be answered.

Also, and most importantly, some 30 millennia ago humans likely hunted the original Neanderthals to extinction. (sorry) With the new genome, the possibility will exist “to bring the species back from extinction by inserting the Neanderthal genome into a human egg and having volunteers bear Neanderthal infants.” Talk about righting past wrongs in the most twisted way possible. That’s all for now.