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Perfect Copy: Unravelling the Cloning Debate

by Nicholas Agar

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Nicholas Agar provides a uniquely accessible exploration of the highly controversial issue of cloning. Starting with the biology, and building up the scientific background step-by-step, Perfect Copy provides the perfect guide to the moral labyrinth that surrounds the cloning debate.

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Nicholas Agar is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington.

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Genres: Science & Nature, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 500 — Natural sciences & mathematics Science Natural sciences and mathematics
LCC: QH442.2 .A435 — Science Natural history – Biology Biology (General) Genetics
BISAC: SCI SCIENCE Biotechnology
SCI SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects

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Languages: English, Slovenian
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Published: 2002
Genres: Science & Nature, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 500
LCC: QH442.2 .A435

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