Clone This

RawAlex · 11-26-2002

Italian Doctor says cloned baby due to be delivered in January...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ing_antinori_dc

The pope must be freakin'!

11-26-2002

Cloning will be a HUGE influence on the next 50 years of human development. I'll bet MikeAI on it, if he has any money left from the Saints game.

C.

Alex @ ISPrime · 11-26-2002

Cloning is great! My child will be a clone and genetically engineered

Almighty Colin · 11-27-2002

Cloning = asexual reproduction.

There's a reason why sexual reproduction evolved. Asexual reproduction
seems like it should be superior to sexual for a species, for many it is. If you imagine two populations - one that uses sexual reproduction and one that uses asexual, you will realize that every generation the asexual species will have more offspring than the sexual because every child can reproduce.

So sexual reproduction must have some huge cost benefit for it to have appeared in mammals (and others). There are many theories about this - one popular one of which is Bill Hamilton's. Basically his theory states that sexual reproduction leads to the storing of copies of genes that have no survival value currently but may in the future. Some day, some killer virus comes and some people luckily had the right immune system to deal with it because of recombination. Species that reproduce sexually will end up with better disease resistance than if they didn't. There are other theories too. Matt Ridley's book "The Red Queen" is excellent and on this topic.

I don't know what we're going to do with our cloning knowledge or how it will benefit mankind. It will be interesting. Maybe we will find an advantage in asexual reproduction.

There have been a few claims in the past few years that people have been cloned but they were false. The difficulty is that the success rate of clones in other mammals has been something like 1 in 200. So did Antinori have some failures first or did he invent a new method out of the blue somehow or maybe he is lying.

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RawAlex Members $100 for every ImLive sign-up Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,036	Italian Doctor says cloned baby due to be delivered in January... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ing_antinori_dc The pope must be freakin'! __________________ Let's go to the edge of disaster Push the pedal and go a little faster Let's slam into a wall at ramming speed Let's go to the edge of a mountain Jump off and lets start countin' Hit the ground and tell me if it bleeds

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11-27-2002	#4
Almighty Colin Members Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,059	Cloning = asexual reproduction. There's a reason why sexual reproduction evolved. Asexual reproduction seems like it should be superior to sexual for a species, for many it is. If you imagine two populations - one that uses sexual reproduction and one that uses asexual, you will realize that every generation the asexual species will have more offspring than the sexual because every child can reproduce. So sexual reproduction must have some huge cost benefit for it to have appeared in mammals (and others). There are many theories about this - one popular one of which is Bill Hamilton's. Basically his theory states that sexual reproduction leads to the storing of copies of genes that have no survival value currently but may in the future. Some day, some killer virus comes and some people luckily had the right immune system to deal with it because of recombination. Species that reproduce sexually will end up with better disease resistance than if they didn't. There are other theories too. Matt Ridley's book "The Red Queen" is excellent and on this topic. I don't know what we're going to do with our cloning knowledge or how it will benefit mankind. It will be interesting. Maybe we will find an advantage in asexual reproduction. There have been a few claims in the past few years that people have been cloned but they were false. The difficulty is that the success rate of clones in other mammals has been something like 1 in 200. So did Antinori have some failures first or did he invent a new method out of the blue somehow or maybe he is lying. __________________ Almighty Content. Your one stop for live content. Secret Friends, LATINA Secret Friends , My Cam Friends

11-26-2002	#2
Cal Guest Posts: n/a	Cloning will be a HUGE influence on the next 50 years of human development. I'll bet MikeAI on it, if he has any money left from the Saints game. C.