Pleistocene Park: Neanderthals

A research project will attempt to reconstruct the genome of Neanderthal humans.

This is more plausible than the dinosaur creation of Jurassic Park, as Neanderthals lived more or less in the present, only 30,000 years ago.

The project will shed light on human evolution.

If successful, it will also create the possibility of recreating Neanderthals, if the problem of artificial or surrogate wombs for the beings could be solved.  (Science fiction suggested this outcome decades ago.)

Though ethically dubious, such an experiment could reveal much about what Neanderthals were like.

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