The Neanderthals Are Back
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The Neanderthals Are Back: The Beginning is the first of a series of stories about the life of Neanderthals growing up in modern society after two scientists bring them back with the help of some surrogate mothers. This book focuses on the story of the first six Neanderthal babies as they grow up. At first they are raised in the lab in secret and taught by a nursery school teacher. When the children are five and six, the scientists place them with the owners of a group home for children with disabilities.
The stories follow the Neanderthal children as they grow up, go to school, have relationships with other children, go through their teenage years, and start working in unskilled jobs in their early 20s. Along the way they face many challenges, including bullying, romances with humans, and a strike for better working conditions. Some even participate in experiments where they get a genius pill that makes them suddenly smart for a while. Meanwhile, scientists in other areas of the country bring back other Neanderthal kids.
The Beginning features the six children's first years of being born, growing up in the lab, and being introduced to their group home. We also get to know the kids who have very different personalities -- from being a leader to being very friendly and social or being quiet and shy. Then, when one boy goes exploring, this leads to a series of events, resulting in the media discovering the Neanderthals, leading to the question: "What do we do now?"
The book is the beginning of a unique compelling series that raises many issues that might occur should the Neanderthals really be brought back, which could happen.
Gini Graham Scott
Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., CEO of Changemakers Publishing and Writing, is an internationally known writer, speaker, and workshop leader. She has published over 50 books with major publishers on various topics and has written over 3 dozen children's books. Her published children's books include Katy's Bow, Scratches, The Crazy Critters First Visit, and Where's the Avocado? published by Black Rose Writing. She has published 8 children's books through her company Changemakers Kids and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She does workshops on self-publishing and creativity. She also helps clients write books as a ghostwriter and self-publish or find publishers and agents. Her websites are www.changemakerspublishgandwriting.com and www.ginigrahamscott.com.
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The Neanderthals Are Back - Gini Graham Scott
THE NEANDERTHALS
ARE BACK
A Series of Stories about Modern Day Neanderthals and their New Families
After Two Scientists Bring Them Back
THE BEGINNING
by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.
THE NEANDERTHALS ARE BACK
Copyright © 2019 by Gini Graham Scott
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WHY BRING BACK THE NEANDERTHALS?
How We Can Bring Back the Neanderthal
What Happens If We Bring Back the Neanderthals?
Introducing the Neanderthal Stories
THE BEGINNING
CHAPTER 1: DISCOVERY
Morning
The Experiment
CHAPTER 2: LEARNING IN THE LAB
CHAPTER 3: LEAVING THE LAB
CHAPTER 4: THE GROUP HOME
CHAPTER 5: GETTING TO KNOW THE KIDS
CHAPTER 6: A DAY TO REMEMBER
CHAPTER 7: THE AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 8: WHAT’S NEXT?
MORE ON THE SERIES
THE NEXT STORIES IN THE SERIES
2: Get Smart
3: The New Child
4: The Boxing Match
5: The Accusation
6: The Competition
7: Neanderthal Games
8: The Robbery
9: Rape!
10: Sex Games
11: Strike!
12: Keeping Up with the Neanderthals
13: Between Two Worlds
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
WHY BRING BACK THE NEANDERTHALS?
I’ve been thinking about Neanderthals for the last three years and have been fascinated to read about the latest scientific discoveries about them. Among some of the discoveries that got me thinking are these:
- The Neanderthals spread out in Northern Europe, where they lived in small family groups, much like our early Hominoid ancestors.
- At some point, perhaps 100,000 to 30,000 years ago, early humans and Neanderthals interbred before the humans wiped them out. Now many of us with northern European and Asian roots have about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, which could include me.
- The Neanderthals had fire and burned it in fire pits. They obtained it from natural events like lightning strikes and forest fires and then tended the fire to keep it going. They also could make it by smashing mineral pyrite against flint to create sparks they nursed into a large fire.
- The Neanderthals made jewelry, cared for their sick, and buried their dead in common burial sites.
- They had language and the skills to communicate in order to organize small groups to hunt down game—a skill which animals such as wolves use while hunting in packs to trap and kill their prey.
Taking all of that information together, I imagined that the Neanderthals might have had the brain power of a modern four, five, or six year old. Then, I wondered about the possibility of bringing the Neanderthals back, since there have been some recent developments in bringing back once extinct species.
How We Can Bring Back the Neanderthal
As I researched the matter, I discovered that scientists are talking about the science and ethics of bringing back Neanderthals, now that they have some new techniques to bring back some mammals from extinction. One is the Pyrenean Ibex, the first mammal brought back briefly and there are continuing efforts to bring it back by cloning it from preserved cells, according to an article "Fresh Effort to Clone Extinct Animal" by Paul Rincon in the BBC news. Likewise, Australian scientists are working on bringing back the extinct Tasmanian tiger using a technique developed by Harvard geneticist George Church, according to several news articles, including one by Peter Devlin for the Daily Mail in Australia: ’It’s Not Science Fiction, It’s Science Fact’: Australian Scientists Plan to Clone the Tasmanian Tiger and Bring It Back from Extinction and by John Pickrell explaining the process for Cosmos Magazine:
Return of the Living Thylacine. And under the leadership of George Church there is an effort to clone the mammoth using the DNA of closest living relative, the Asian elephant. In fact, a California Institute called Revive and Restore is where Ben Novak and other
de-extinction" engineers hope to use genetic engineering to revive selected extinct animals using the CRISPR gene editing tool.
In other research developments, scientists are now growing Neanderthal/human hybrid brains in a lab. Professor Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and author of Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, has already led an international team of scientists to successfully unravel the Neanderthal genome. To this end, the team has been using CRISPER gene-editing techniques to study the development of brains to determine what makes us human.
Thus, bringing back the Neanderthal is scientifically possible. George Church, the Harvard geneticist, believes cloning a Neanderthal in our lifetime is possible, using current stem cell technology and a completed sequence of the Neanderthal genome. It involves inserting a cell with the DNA obtained from Neanderthal bones and