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Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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