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[Willie the Duck]

I have never understood the value of clones except in very particular (probably unethical) medical circumstances. otherwise, if you can clone, you can just fertilize eggs.

I remember when Dolly the sheep first happened, there was a editorial cartoon in the local paper. In it, an excited scientist is holding a newspaper with the headline and loudly exclaiming "now we can reproduce without having sex!" The tagline was "another solution in search of a problem."

 

[Swanosaurus]

As well as Star Wars (and a number of other sci-fi stories that involve cloning) which implies or outright states that you need the original donor cells on hand to make viable clones.

Isn't that how they did it on Dune? Producing one ghola after the other from the original?

 

[Reynard]

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Deep cut!

 

[GMMichael]

Humans needed to clone something 58 times to see why mutation and Darwinism have worked for eons?

 

[timbannock]

Humans needed to clone something 58 times to see why mutation and Darwinism have worked for eons?

But the 59th time will be SO DIFFERENT!