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https://evolutionnews.org/2013/01/an_apology_for_/
Any technology that can accomplish such feats — taking us back into a primeval era when mammoths and Neanderthals roamed the earth — is one of unprecedented power. Genomic technologies will permit us to replay scenes from our evolutionary past and take evolution to places where it has never gone, and where it would probably never go if left to its own devices.
-- George Church, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
SPIEGEL: How do we have to imagine this: You raise Neanderthals in a lab, ask them to solve problems and thereby study how they think?
CHURCH: No, you would certainly have to create a cohort, so they would have some sense of identity. They could maybe even create a new neo-Neanderthal culture and become a political force.