If Neanderthals were cloned, should and will they enjoy the same fundamental rights (if any) as Homo sapiens?

Question

They are 'humans' in their own right, just that they are not modern humans. Some say that they are 99.5% identical to modern humans, and they could probably interbreed with humans.

Would they (and should they) be granted fundamental rights?

Answer 1

it's said we interbred with Neanderthals so I'm now wondering if their DNA strain can be teazed out to produce a Neanderthal clone???  Not that I would want to do that, of course....... hmmm.....

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/814?p...

Answer 2

Man, that show is stupid!

Answer 3

they all would work for geico

Answer 4

I think they would be, unless it's discovered that they have some fundamental difference that makes it impossible for them to live in human society.  But if that were the case, I doubt they would be cloned in any kind of numbers.

Answer 5

this is a silly question but i'll answer it anyway. neanderthal is a group of found human remains  named after the neander valley (in what is now western germany). and, yes, these ancient people are people and very human so if you were to clone them (although i don't know why), these humans would be the same as any human living today in the neander valley, warts and all. their speech would be subject to what they spoke 'then' but no different than teaching french or german to any lad or lass in nyc.  you speak what you hear but can be taught other languages. in fact, give the neader man a rock tee shirt, jeans, addias sneakers, crew socks, a hair cut, have him stand on the corner of 42nd and b'way (nyc, natch) and nobody, and i mean nobody, would tell the difference. they are more like us than....us!  as for his grumblings? he'd be taken as a disgruntled teen, or other.  really!

Answer 6

One of the inferences of the 1997 Neanderthal DNA study, was that 5% of today's population has more extreme genetic makeup than a 25,000 year old Neanderthal, which implies that of the nearly 7 billion people alive today, appx.300 million would have a more radical appearance than a 25,000 year old Neanderthal speciman...

Answer 7

Most anthropologists think we didn't evolve from Neanderthals, but branched out separately. If they suddenly came into existence, I'd imagine they would be treated well, depending on how intelligent they really were. That could add a whole new element to racial barriers.

Answer 8

yepp, bad breath and all.  at one time homo sapiens  occupied the planet with six other humanoid races, of which neanderthals were one.