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>I do take comfort from the thought that only a plonker would want to
>produce a clone; and that there is then a reasonable expectation
>that to the extent that plonkers are produced by inheritance, rather
>then by environmental influences, the result is likely to be another
>plonker.
Surely this means that "naturally" plonkers would weed themselves out of
the evolutionary progession, however with cloning you would be in danger
of getting plonkers multiplying like wild fire. It is we "non-plonkers"
who need to beware!
>> Armadillos of course produce a clone of 8 with each
>> pregnancy, but we wil not trouble ourselves over the unique
>> particularities of armadillos.
>
>From what you say, whatever else the armadillos might be, unique they
>are not.
>
>Mike Wells
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