Should we clone Neanderthals? Seriously.

*That headline may sound like tabloid bait, but this is quite a thoughtful and well-researched article. It had never occurred to me, for instance, that cloned Neanderthal stem cells and tissues might have commercial biomedical applications.

*But one rather imagines they would.

*It's also quite eerie to learn that the best current candidates for Neanderthal cloning are a group of murdered Neanderthals who were devoured by cannibals 49,000 years ago. Imagine these gruesome cannibal victims...