What does it have to do with cloning? It means you don't need to clone animals to save a wild species, as some technophiles like to think. Of course, we already knew that. Witness the recovery of bald eagles, wood ducks, and the slow increase in the numbers of Whooping cranes, which were down to about 25 individuals a few years back but now number in the hundreds.
Cloning to save a species is a silly idea anyway, because you need genetic diversity to survive diseases and changing environmental conditions.
Jim Kling
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What does it have to do with cloning? It means you don't need to clone animals to save a wild species, as some technophiles like to think. Of course, we already knew that. Witness the recovery of bald eagles, wood ducks, and the slow increase in the numbers of Whooping cranes, which were down to about 25 individuals a few years back but now number in the hundreds. Cloning to save a species is a silly idea anyway, because you need genetic diversity to survive diseases and changing environmental conditions. Jim Kling