[gravitycop]

let's pretend you could find a human carrier to gestate your transgenic Neanderthal baby for you.

How about a chimpanzee carrier, as George Church suggested? http://www.google.com/search?q=george+church+chimpanzee+nean...

http://reason.com/news/printer/131717.html

Church would modify a modern human genome so that its DNA matches the Neanderthal version. [...] this Neanderthal genome would not be inserted into a human cell but instead into a chimpanzee cell. This chimp cell would be reprogrammed to an embryonic state, and then introduced into a chimpanzee's womb where it would develop into a Neanderthal infant.

[davi]

Good links, thanks.

But do you think a chimpanzee carrier makes it okay to inflict (with reasonably high likelihood) mutations and health problems on animals you are expecting will have near-human, or even human, levels of intelligence?

I don't.

[gravitycop]

do you think a chimpanzee carrier makes it okay to inflict

What is the test for "okay"?

okay to inflict (with reasonably high likelihood) mutations and health problems on animals you are expecting will have near-human, or even human, levels of intelligence?

They could be aborted, instead, by not carrying out the project. http://news.google.com/news?q=abortion+birth+defects

In the process, an entire race of humans, or near humans, would also be aborted. http://news.google.com/news?q=racial+genocide

[jacquesm]

troll alert...