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Ancient DNA sounds fascinating. Exactly how ancient are we talking here? I mean is there any chance of bringing back Neanderthal Man for a chat :S Although that would be so fascinating.

"Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" is creepy, what you're doing is incredible

As ancient as we can get our hands on. I doubt I'd ever be privileged or important enough to work on the rare pre-neanderthal specimens, but who knows! A lot of the research I hope to be going into will be lab-based study of remains we already have - first understanding how skeletal remains preserve ancient biomolecules and then how we can interpret them and compare them with modern biomolecules. It's going to be interesting anyway and could do a lot to fill in the gaps between homo-species.

Unfortunately I don't think the prospect of resurrecting neanderthals is on the cards just yet!...you're right though, that would be amazing :-D