Are there any efforts to resurrect early humans using the same techniques?
The early humans that you’d probably be interested in, the Cro-Magnon and the Neanderthal, we just haven’t found frozen. But there is this Ice Man that was found in the Italian Alps. He’s 5,000 years old — conceivably you could clone him, if they had kept his tissue frozen the whole time that he was extracted from the ice. But say you found some decent enough DNA, the Ice Man could be brought back — a 5,000-year-old person! The question is, would it make a difference? Would the intelligence capacity of a human 5,000 years ago be any different from that today? Because you wouldn’t just clone this person as he was. He’d be a baby, and he’d grow up and he’d learn. Presumably, you wouldn’t put him in a cave and see how he developed. You’d have to give the cloned baby the opportunities that any other child would have. The Internet. Teletubbies … You’d end up having a normal person just like us. Five thousand years is not a long time in human evolution. How seriously do wildlife biologis
