Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby

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14. There was a very interesting science fiction story that took a twist on this idea:

Ted Kosmatka, N-words (I found it online through Google books in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.)

They came from test tubes. They came pale as ghosts with eyes as blue-white as glacier ice. They came first out of Korea.

--Snip--

The magazine showed a pale, red-haired Neanderthal boy standing with his adoptive parents, staring thoughtfully up at an outdated anthropology display at a museum. The wax Neanderthal man in the display carried a club. He had a nose from the tropics, dark hair, olive-brown skin and dark brown eyes. Before Harding’s child, the museum display designers had supposed they knew what primitive looked like, and they had supposed it was decidedly swarthy.

Never mind that Neanderthals had spent ten times longer in light-starved Europe than a typical Swede’s ancestors.

The redheaded boy on the cover wore a confused expression.

--Snip--

Excerpt here as well: http://www.johnjosephadams.com/seeds-of-change/?page_id=11