Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human
will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and
moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In Copycats:
The Science and Ethics of Cloning, Arlene Judith Klotzko
describes the new world of possibilities that can be glimpsed
over the horizon. In a lucid and engaging narrative, she
explains that the technology to create clones of living beings
already exists, inaugurated in 1996 by Dolly the sheep, the
(...) first mammal cloned from a single adult cell. Dolly is the
culmination of a long scientific quest to understand the puzzle
of our development from one cell into a complex organism--the
outcome of a "fantastic experiment" envisioned six decades
before her birth. Scientists have since cloned mice, cows,
goats, pigs, rabbits and cats. Using the same laboratory tools
and techniques, they are trying to grow an embryo, cloned from a
single cell of a human being. Their goal is not to make copies
of existing people, but to design th