Knut Fladmark of Simon Fraser University over 30 years ago, it has been tested by Ruth Gruhn and Alan Bryan of the University of Alberta and has accumulated many supporters in recent years. ... LINGUISTIC AND DNA EVIDENCE Specialists in the field of linguistics have come up with independent conclusions that support he idea that the First Americans came over surprisingly early (Boyle: 2000). 4 Professor Johanna Nichols from University of California at Berkley, concluded that it would take at least 30,000 years for the wide variety of a 140 different Languages in north Am...

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Elinar Arnason is a population geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Iceland. ... Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin writes in the New York Times, "The Icelandic parliament has enabled deCODE to convert the health and genetic status of the entire population into a tool, for the profit of a single enterprise." ... As medical ethicist Henry Greely, a Stanford law professor points out, "Genetics research grew up with family studies, in which the families involved have an obvious incentive to participate. ...

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Gelder of Stanford says, "look at what pills and powders they ingest before deciding that scientists play a too eminent role in today's world" (Gelder 1). ... Schmitt of University of Chicago speaks, is creating a new "human" or organism, and although benefits and drawbacks are both heavily weighted, it is not something in which genetic enhancement holds relevance. ...

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Titan should also involve itself in ethical committees on gene therapy such as the Stanford program in Genomics, Ethics and Society or The National Gene Therapy Advisory Committee. ... Regional and local ethical committees for hospitals, universities and research institutes strictly control genetic research and its applications in gene therapy. ...

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For the first time the cloning of a whole human being seems really possible. It is absolutely necessary to consider the harm that can be done and move to curb abuses. Also, it is important to understand some of the theory underlying the desire to build a better human. The Ethical Downside of Cloning...

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For nearly a century, cloning has been the subject of popular fiction even though the technology was lacking in reality. Recently, with the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, many suspect that clones of humans or human parts will soon be realized- if not already. Therefore, it has become incre...

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