Prof seeks woman to give birth to Neanderthal? Not exactly

As if pulling a storyline the movie "Jurassic Park," a Harvard University professor says it would be possible to clone the long-extinct Neanderthal. One little hitch is that he'd need a woman willing to carry the offspring.

"Let's hope they'll be able to clone us 30,000 years from now, eh?"

(Credit: Neanderthal Museum/Wikimedia Commons)

Contrary to a flurry of headlines following a recent interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, however, Harvard molecular geneticist George Church is not currently taking applications from would-be surrogate moms.

"The real story here is how these stories have percolated and changed in different ways," Church, a well-respected genetics professor at Harvard Medical School, told The Boston Herald following a slew of recent impossible-to-ignore headlines such as "I can create Neanderthal baby, I just need willing woman," and, from the Daily Mail, "... [Read more]