From Nicholas Wade's NYT piece today on trying to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome:
If the Neanderthal genome were fully recovered, it might in principle be possible to bring the species back from extinction by inserting the Neanderthal genome into a human egg and having volunteers bear Neanderthal infants. There would, however, be great technical and ethical barriers to any such venture.
Translation: This is awfully cool, and, if possible, will happen.
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