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Video Clip: Basic issues around human cloning
New York Times article about cloning pets
Cloning on "How Stuff Works" website
Article/Interview with author Nancy Farmer
BBC: "Brave New Cloning World"
The following YouTube Clips are from Star Trek season 2, episode 9: "A Measure of a Man".
- Data (an android), discusses being a robot and the human characteristics that separate him from the human race. In connection to this clip, ask and The House of the Scorpion, think about what makes us human. What sets us apart from animals or robots? How do we show our human characteristics daily? Are our characteristics ever animal-like?