From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 10:42:39 MST
lcorbin@tsoft.com (Lee Corbin) writes:
>Why wouldn't a mature cloning technology substantially
>increase the number of people? Why, I myself would go
>get two or three new clones of me alone. Besides, the
A mature version of the current approach probably wouldn't enable you
to do that because you probably wouldn't persuade a woman to bear the
fetus. A mature technology that didn't require bearing the fetus would
presumably increase the number of people, but it's unclear whether that
should be relevant to current cloning efforts.
>"unhealthy babies" will be a mere transition effect,
A suspicious assumption. Remember why sexual reproduction evolved -
a static set of genes is more vulnerable to rapidly evolving germs.
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