From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 11:57:22 MST
> (Brett Paatsch <paatschb@ocean.com.au>):
> In a hypothetical world, otherwise like this one, where a
> clone's chances of surviving through to "birth" and being
> "healthy" are just as good as that of the average non-clone,
> what new classes of threat or abuse or new sources of
> concern do people imagine would arise?
The only semi-legitimate concern I can think of is that it
adds less diversity to the gene pool than traditional breeding,
and so might allow infectious diseases to out-evolve us. But
it would have to become a /very/ common means of reproduction
for that to have any major effect.
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