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Cloning is safer - the perils of sexual DNA combination?
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RE: Cloning is safer - the perils of sexual DNA combination?
(October 8, 2021 at 6:32 am)Lawz Wrote: I've known many people who are profoundly deformed and crippled, tragically, due to congenital birth defects. Would not cloning be a preferable means by which the species is perpetuated? Individuality/personality would, of course, still exist due to PROFOUND environmental influences. 

Sci fi?

The biggest drawback to cloning humans appears to be the cost, estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per clone. On the other hand, you can make people the traditional way for the price of a half bottle of scotch and poor judgement.

Boru
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RE: Cloning is safer - the perils of sexual DNA combination? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 8, 2021 at 7:29 am

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