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If you choose to follow any links to the abstract and/or complete text of the item listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Leon Eisenberg Would Cloned Humans Really be like Sheep? (... a down-to-earth discussion about the realities [in the author's opinion] of the potential of human cloning and the way in which the ethical debate about human cloning has progressed. The author states that proposals for human cloning aimed at improving the species are a biological nonsense. The ethical debate concerning the prospect of human cloning has been plagued by false assumptions about the relation between a potential human clone and its adult progenitor. The author further states that if human cloning was to be widely adopted, it would have a devastating effect on the diversity of the human gene pool. Furthermore, cloning can only select for traits that have been successful in the past, and these may not necessarily be adaptive to an unpredictable future because the phenotypes produced would be extremely vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the environment. Other keywords and phrases -- clones -- from the abstract of the article available through the database, General Science Abstracts) New England Journal of Medicine Volume 340, Number 6 (February 11, 1999): 471-475. How to find the above journal, magazine, or other publication? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions? Please let me know. |
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