7th Son

[totoshkin]

I have just read a wonderful book by Sebastian Faulks called the 7th Son. It is about the cloning of a Neanderthal with a human via a surrogate mother. Really good debate on ethics and the future of civilisation. The child created by the cloning is bought up in Penge and turns out a supporter of our beloved Palace. Numerous references to his footballing abilities and likeness to Wharton. Gets a bit dense in places particularly around DNA etc, but well worth a read. I commend it to the House.

 

[Badger11]

I have just read a wonderful book by Sebastian Faulks called the 7th Son. It is about the cloning of a Neanderthal with a human via a surrogate mother. Really good debate on ethics and the future of civilisation. The child created by the cloning is bought up in Penge and turns out a supporter of our beloved Palace. Numerous references to his footballing abilities and likeness to Wharton. Gets a bit dense in places particularly around DNA etc, but well worth a read. I commend it to the House.

Can we clone a left wing back and a striker please. 😀

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Can we clone a left wing back and a striker please. 😀

If only we could clone Tyrick with Kenny Sansom……………………..we would have Tyny Mitchsom

 

[PalazioVecchio]

most people don't know that the Neanderthals had a bigger brain than most Homo 'Sapiens'. Ironic cos of the naming of the latter.
It was less of the Neanderthals going extinct, than really them being swamped by high-breeding newcomers. Some hybridisation happened, but was it a metaphor for a Welfare-class outbreeding a tax-paying class ?

Neanderthals are often portrayed as brutes. But i do not recollect them ever using nuclear weapons on each other. It is highly likely that their levels of teamwork exceeded ourselves. Can you imagine much of us surviving a deep ice age for 400,000 years ?

 

[CrazyBadger]

most people don't know that the Neanderthals had a bigger brain than most Homo 'Sapiens'. Ironic cos of the naming of the latter.
It was less of the Neanderthals going extinct, than really them being swamped by high-breeding newcomers. Some hybridisation happened, but was it a metaphor for a Welfare-class outbreeding a tax-paying class ?

Neanderthals are often portrayed as brutes. But i do not recollect them ever using nuclear weapons on each other. It is highly likely that their levels of teamwork exceeded ourselves. Can you imagine much of us surviving a deep ice age for 400,000 years ?

So Neanderthals are basically the Betamax of Human history?

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

For no particular reason, Millwall just seemed the more appropriate club. 😀

 

[PalazioVecchio]

So Neanderthals are basically the Betamax of Human history?

is it just a coincidence that the geographical location with the highest prevalence of Neanderthal DNA is also the place that started the Renaissance ? Tuscany.

Neanderthals are fascinating...........

Also very much of the Neanderthal dna is alive and well in East-Asia. Places like China......the new economic superpower.

Scientists finally solve mystery of why Europeans have less Neanderthal DNA than East Asians

Modern Europeans have a smaller proportion of Neanderthal genes in their genomes than East Asians do. New research suggests the reason lies at the feet of migrating early farmers.

www.livescience.com

 

[Stirlingsays]

So Neanderthals are basically the Betamax of Human history?

No, but I like the comparison.