It’s a widespread belief that leaders should be available to the followers all the time. Thus, Earth, with its multicellular critters and humanity with its technology, is quite the uncommon planet inside the Universe – in response to some. Yes, human cloning is the next challenge for scientists after Dolly, the cloned sheep was born in 1996. The primary proponents of what’s now known as the ‘Uncommon Earth Speculation’ are the scientists Brownlee and Ward (see under), and they have actually stirred up an astrobiological hornet’s nest with the idea.

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