Dolly the Sheep and the Boys of Brazil

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There's been no human clones have been created as far as we know. Cloning is very odd you know people that it hasn't really worked so if you think of you all the excitement of dolly the sheep there's been noHuman clones have beencreated and cloned horse race horses but race horses are not genetically identical to each other. In cats, a huge random element to coat color which means that you got a giant genetically identical animal but it doesn't look the same.

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.