Researchers from the Max Planck Institute managed to construct a draft genome extracted from three Neanderthal skeletons discovered in a cave in Croatia
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the 454 Life Science Company from Bradford, Connecticut, announced on February 12 during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and at a parallel press conference in Europe about the decoding of a complete genome of Neanderthal man.
The project was made possible with financial assistance from the Max Planck Society and was managed by Savant Pavo, director of the Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Anthropology. Pabo and his colleagues sequenced over a billion DNA segments extracted from three 38-year-old Neanderthal humans discovered in Croatia, using innovative methods.
The Max Planck Institute hopes that the Neanderthal genome sequence will clarify the evolutionary relationship between humans and Neanderthals, as well as help identify the genetic changes that allowed modern humans to leave Africa and spread all over the world, starting 100 years ago. During most of this time, at least in the eastern Mediterranean region, and in parts of Asia, Neanderthals lived alongside modern humans for tens of thousands of years until their sudden disappearance.
Neanderthals are the closest creatures to humans alive today. They lived in Europe and parts of Asia until they became extinct about 30 thousand years ago. For over a century, paleontologists and anthropologists have been trying to uncover their evolutionary connection to modern man.
Pabo, a pioneer in the field of ancient DNA research, made the first contribution to understanding the relationship between us and Neanderthals when he sequenced Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA in 1997 (And see a news item from 2008 about decoding Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA). Together with 454 Life Sciences, Fado has now announced a new milestone in Neanderthal research. Together, the two groups sequenced more than 3 billion bases of Neanderthal DNA, creating the first draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome. Together, the DNA fragments make up over 60% of the entire human genome. It will now be possible to compare these sequences to those obtained by sequencing the human genome and the chimpanzee genome in order to reach initial insights about the differences between the genomes of the extinct creatures and those of modern humans.
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The Neanderthals didn't pay much attention to the writer of the psalms... by the way, it would be interesting to meet him with the editor of the tiles, I say - Yala, we will bring him cloned and healthy, as long as they don't start lawsuits about everything that has been done in the period of time since the Carmel caves, Nahal Amud or Hermon…..so we will see what government position he is suitable for.
You can clone one or several.
So let's see what the point is.
In general, this may be a human being with a profoundly elongated face and a different structure of consciousness, perhaps with increased physical and sensory abilities, as some say, but without logical ability, language, imagination, perhaps something else, creative consciousness or a train of thought that with us may only be mentioned in philosophical circles.
Or something between a pet chimpanzee with clothes and a child with Down syndrome.
If the Neanderthals were closer to the first option, I don't see the business and benefit of it.
emir:
what is "we will have a neanderthal"
Since when can you "have" someone?
You treat him like he's an animal without any rights. By what right?
To Michael R. (formerly Michael):
We won't do Rewind or Fast Forward, we'll just have an undeveloped Neanderthal, big deal, what scares you so much?
lion:
As you said: he may develop in a way that will allow his integration into human society.
What do your words mean? Among the shit they also say that it may not develop like this!
And what will you do then? Rewind?
Even if the intention is good and we assume that the data is correct, the very fact that he will be an experimental creature will make him live under everyone's microscope and thus will not allow him a normal life.
Before my eyes comes the association of the 'Elephant Man' and his bitter fate.
What's more, you never know into which hands it may fall due to the necessity of changing realities and other people who may be 'fond' of that Neanderthal-treasure and whatever it may be.
Good intentions are always hidden in every 'experiment' in the name of knowledge and science, but the reversal is always at the door, and this must always be taken into account.
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The Neanderthal's brain is approximately equal in size and structure to the modern human brain, as well as the structure of his throat and hence his potential ability to speak. A human baby is also born without any abilities and knowledge. It is quite possible that if a Neanderthal baby grows up in a human environment and receives education and love like any normal child, he may grow up to be an intelligent person (perhaps on a slightly lower level - but there are millions of such people walking around among us anyway).
Judging by the drawing at the top of the page and assuming that the cloning is successful and the baby is born normal and not deformed, he will grow up and even be able to marry and have children as a normal person (I assume he has the same number of chromosomes as a modern person).
Of course, carrying out such a project will teach us a lot. And especially about the abilities of the Neanderthals, the reasons for their disappearance and, of course, control over the technology that would perhaps allow even more exotic animals to be brought to life if an organic material is found that would allow this.
In short - I'm in favor.
This is it, and it will be called Derwintska Lincomania, the renewed generation,
The truth is that I don't find the matter a joke.
If anyone has not yet read the book 'The Snowman' about a type of research-anthropological conspiracy, it is recommended.
It is not certain that this article is not one of the ways to create as if a consciousness of preparation for cloning and pulling out an ancient species, which was thought to be extinct, oops, straight from the genetic cave.
I will always doubt the motives of the researches, I'm sorry,,,because what is not done these days for prestige or money:,in the name of science.
The sciences: the great teachers for creating self-doubt.
I have two things to say
A. Like my predecessors, I don't think there is any point in cloning him because we might create a miserable production full of hereditary diseases that in the end we will have nothing to do with.
B. Apparently he will be cloned very quickly because the Neanderthal is a tourist business that may bring in millions and it is clear to me that an entrepreneur will be restored who will take advantage of the business potential inherent in this. Who among us would not run to see the Neanderthal?
As a language and name talk about the fact that a person has already been cloned, they are about to do that as well. It's simply a lost battle in advance.
good week
Sabdarmish Yehuda
I don't even have a shadow of a doubt that the Neanderthal will clone, it's just a matter of time. And most likely it will even happen quite quickly.
Tell me a point, would you like to be in this boy's place?
Psalms. What the hell does religion have against this restoration?
I'm not worried about what will happen in two hundred years. I am concerned about creating a child with a deformed appearance, on purpose, without any real benefit to science.
Roy, in 200 years the human race will no longer be so human anyway..
point,
When there is scientific profit, we will talk.
Chupa Kabra.
A modern Frankenstein.
The resurrection of the dead will be brought by the scientists and not by the sorcerers.
Roy,
Scientific curiosity outweighs the arguments against.
Happiness and work are not the lot of most people,
These are really not arguments in relation to the scientific profit.
I have to agree that there is no point in bringing Neanderthal man back to life. This is a complicated procedure that will require a surrogate mother, and the chance of complications is huge.
Just for starters, it's worth emphasizing that no one has yet succeeded in cloning humans. Here they want not only to clone a person, but also to do several hundred genetic manipulations on him, which is difficult to know how they will affect the final product.
And even if we succeed... so what? Will we have a small, smart and perverted child? What did we gain from it? What did the boy gain from it? Will the scientists care about his happiness? Find him a wife and a job even though he looks like a… well… Neanderthal?
In one word - no. In two words: no and no.
Missiles... maybe your job is to study Torah. Some are intended for other things.
The scientists are trying to understand what God wants us to understand.
Otherwise, why did he create the tools for them to do so?
But Torah is boring... molecular biology takes a lot.
This whole article is heresy and abomination!!
The scientists are trying to tinker in places that we are forbidden to tinker with.
We must engage all day from morning until evening only in Torah study - that's the only way salvation will come
And Messiah, son of David!!
As a secularist like the commenters before me, I also don't take the matter seriously even though it's interesting, it's a shame that dinosaurs can't be reconstructed, it would have been much more interesting and I'm also sure that the absolute majority would not be against their reconstruction, as we mentioned before Jurassic Park could be a great visit 😉 maybe near The safari in Ramat Gan is a good place to build such a park, did someone say freedom?!…
I also shy away from the matter despite my secularism.
The main reason for my reluctance stems from the concern for those who will be created in this way.
Let's even suppose that we can create a male and a female and even suppose that in principle they can live on a desert island - like in Jurassic Park - the question still arises as to who will raise them as babies, how this can be done (especially when it seems that a 10-year-old Neanderthal child is expected to be stronger than any adult homosapiens) and how - at the end of a phase Childhood - will return them to nature while separating them from the environment in which they were born and raised.
In this I think you are right... I am also secular/atheist (not decided yet 🙂 ).
If he turns out to be quite intelligent, are we allowed to prevent him from reproducing and continuing his race just because we brought him back to life?? Was he forced to duplicate a partner? Or can we just quietly let the race fade again after we've exhausted what can be learned from it?
I am in favor of the recovery of extinct species, as long as they became extinct due to human intervention and not through natural selection. Although one can always ask, isn't what we do part of natural selection?
Other species that went extinct before human intervention I think we need to ask ourselves what the impact will be. There is sometimes a reason for their extinction. Will we interfere with natural selection and the evolution of species? Or will we restore several items only for research purposes?
I am a total atheist and yet I think it is very problematic to bring Neanderthal back to life. There are several reasons for this.
First of all, we really don't know how smart and how much like us he was. Its proximity to human trials is problematic.
Second thing, as written in Wint, what will we do with him after the cloning? Shall we put him in a zoo, among us or at home to clean? Maybe actually on the battlefield?
Third thing, what will happen if it turns out that he is smarter than us? So what do we do?
I think bringing him back is playing with fire. It might amuse the guys but it can also give us serious burns. physical or moral. I don't think it's worth the risk.
Father, it's a shame that you didn't bring the follow-up article, just yesterday it was published in the science section of YNet that one of the leading people in the field (Dr. George Church) announced that from a practical point of view it is already possible to clone the Neanderthal man and see him literally alive and breathing before our eyes! !
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3674170,00.html
In my opinion, giving up such an amazing possibility would be simply madness, obviously most of the excuses against this project are motivated by evil religious motives, I don't understand how you can give up something so amazing that really borders on science fiction.
It was also announced that this DNA could be fertilized