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"Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
2015...or so.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/17/japa...z1p1enCma8
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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
(March 8, 2013 at 12:37 pm)A Theist Wrote:
(March 8, 2013 at 11:38 am)whateverist Wrote: I read somewhere that someone plans to clone a Neanderthal. Great idea. But then there was discussion about the ethics of how it should be kept and studied. It seems to me that you would have to do your best to give it a typical human upbringing if you wanted to know what it was capable of. A modern human child raised in a closet or by wolves would hardly be a prime specimen to study if you wanted to understand us.

I wonder what criteria was cited for claiming this 340,000 year old specimen was a direct contributor to our line? It doesn't sound to me like they are claiming this specimen was identical to modern humans - although it might be for all I know. But most early humanoids seem to be lost branches which do not necessarily feed directly to our lineage.
Quote:I read somewhere that someone plans to clone a Neanderthal. Great idea.
I remember watching TV where Japanese scientists were wanting to do the same thing with a Wooly Mammoth...that was last year and I haven't seen anything else about it since then....I wonder if they're actually able to do it?

10 to 1 No. It doesn't sound like a serious project with the serious backing it needs for reasonable shot at success.

If the prehistoric animal they are trying to resurrect was some super-paleocattle that produce 4 times the beef and 8 times the milk while eating half the feed, then I think the project will receive the sort of backing to give it reasonable chance of success.
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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?



I now know considerably more about the sex lives of trilobites and velvet worms than I likely needed to know.


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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
(March 8, 2013 at 12:37 pm)A Theist Wrote:
(March 8, 2013 at 11:38 am)whateverist Wrote: I read somewhere that someone plans to clone a Neanderthal. Great idea. But then there was discussion about the ethics of how it should be kept and studied. It seems to me that you would have to do your best to give it a typical human upbringing if you wanted to know what it was capable of. A modern human child raised in a closet or by wolves would hardly be a prime specimen to study if you wanted to understand us.

I wonder what criteria was cited for claiming this 340,000 year old specimen was a direct contributor to our line? It doesn't sound to me like they are claiming this specimen was identical to modern humans - although it might be for all I know. But most early humanoids seem to be lost branches which do not necessarily feed directly to our lineage.
Quote:I read somewhere that someone plans to clone a Neanderthal. Great idea.
I remember watching TV where Japanese scientists were wanting to do the same thing with a Wooly Mammoth...that was last year and I haven't seen anything else about it since then....I wonder if they're actually able to do it?

Their gestation period is about four years. Tongue
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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
(March 8, 2013 at 6:34 am)A Theist Wrote: Thought this may be interesting to you guys...DNA evidence has revealed that humans may be older than first expected...what does everyone think....

Quote:Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fat...33011.html

What I'm wondering is what do you think, being a Pentecostal Christian and all.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
(March 8, 2013 at 6:34 am)A Theist Wrote: Thought this may be interesting to you guys...DNA evidence has revealed that humans may be older than first expected...what does everyone think....

Quote:Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fat...33011.html

I sometimes feel older than I expect to.



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