The cloning of the ewe Dolly was a huge achievement.

When we are held in position to such a daunting probability, one which has direct relation with our well being, we cannot help but take notice of the technique called cloning and ponder about the future of mankind, and how it would change, be it for the better or the worse.

Though the cloning technique is still very much in its infancy, there are people that believe that cloning human is very much within reach. A brilliant example would be Richard Seed, an American scientist who has officially setup a human cloning clinic. The controversial move runs counter to President Clinton's directive that the public and private sectors refrain from human cloning research.

All this recent hype over modifying genes and making clones and ripping apart our gene pool, has been building up over the past 150 years when Gregor Mendel did his extensive study on herdity of please, and when Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace presented their theory of evolution to the world.

But it wasn't until around the 1940s that genetics, as we know it today, became something well-known to the world. Shortly after the end of mainstream eugenics (see An Ideal Society), the public's attention went to genetics. In 1945, just 5 years after its eugenics headquarters were shut down, Cold Spring Harbor

				The cloning of the ewe Dolly was a huge achievement. Dolly mania struck us in the year 1997, and it is not the hope of cloning sheep which interest us, but the fact that by using the similar nuclear transfer method, humans too can be cloned, as least theoretically. When we are held in position to such a daunting probability, one which has direct relation with our well being, we cannot help but take notice of the technique called cloning and ponder about the future of mankind, and how it would change, be it for the better or the worse. Though the cloning technique is still very much in its infancy, there are people that believe that cloning human is very much within reach. A brilliant example would be Richard Seed, an American scientist who has officially setup a human cloning clinic. The controversial move runs counter to President Clinton's directive that the public and private sectors refrain from human cloning research. All this recent hype over modifying genes and making clones and ripping apart our gene pool, has been building up over the past 150 years when Gregor Mendel did his extensive study on herdity of please, and when Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace presented their theory of evolution to the world. But it wasn't until around the 1940s that genetics, as we know it today, became something well-known to the world. Shortly after the end of mainstream eugenics (see An Ideal Society), the public's attention went to genetics. In 1945, just 5 years after its eugenics headquarters were shut down, Cold Spring Harbor