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Human cloning is coming.

You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, 'Where do humans lie?' Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there's a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.