Human Cloning Isn't As Scary As It Sounds
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The recent news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep—
in which the sheep's DNA was inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg to produce
a lamb with identical DNA—has generated an outpouring of ethical concerns. These
concerns are not about Dolly, the now famous sheep, nor even about the
c ....
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.... morally and legally, though not
genetically—so a clone is a separate person from his or her non-contemporaneous
twin. To think otherwise is to embrace a belief in genetic determinism—the view
that genes determine everything about us, and that environmental factors or the
random events in human development are utterly insignificant. The overwhelming
consensus among geneticists is that genetic determinism is false.
As geneticists have come to understand the ways in which genes opera ....
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