Animal Clones and Diversity

Abstract

ral clones are particularly relevant as an era begins in which the artificial cloning of mammals, and potentially humans, is no longer a fantasy. To an evolutionary biologist, sex is meiotic recombination and outcrossing, which together create genetically diverse offspring that interact uniquely with the environment in each new generation. Meiotic sex originated in our single-celled protist ancestors, and except for the evolution of distinct male and female gametes (i.e., small motile sperm Studies of animal clones