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Presumably they're close enough to us that if we can recover their DNA we could use gene editing technology to bring them back to life.
by ig1 11y ago
Presumably they're close enough to us that if we can recover their DNA we could use gene editing technology to bring them back to life.
- HerpDerpLerp 11y agoPresumably you don't work in a biological field!
- ig1 11y agoIf they're in the same genus presumably the same CRISPR approach that's being used to inject Wooly Mammoth genes into Elephants can apply ?
- yellowapple 11y agoPlease let me know when we actually have resurrected the Wooly Mammoth; I can't wait to try a mammoth steak.
- eru 11y agoDNA's half-life is too short.
- RogtamBar 11y agoRe-constructing neanderthals has been suggested as being perfectly viable..
- kuschku 11y agoDNA decomposes very quickly. It's half-life is 521 years. Even in best case, DNA becomes unreadable in 1.5 million years. While Neanderthals lived 38k years ago, this species lived ~ 3 million years ago. Reconstructing this species is practically impossible.