How would cloning affect natural selection?

It would depend entirely on scale — that is, on how much cloning goes on. A clone is just an artificially-created twin (the 'twinning' of the embryo is done by scientists, rather than happening naturally/accidentally within the uterus). It also depends on what species you're talking about. read more

It would depend entirely on scale — that is, on how much cloning goes on. A clone is just an artificially-created twin (the ‘twinning’ of the embryo is done by scientists, rather than happening naturally/accidentally within the uterus). read more

If you’re talking about humans, in the developed world, there’s not a lot of natural selection happening anyway, since almost everybody makes it to reproductive age. Cloning a few humans wouldn’t change much at all. read more

Through therapeutic cloning, diseases can be cured and altered, allowing for the people who have that disease to survive and reproduce, not allowing for evolution to play its part in the scientific process. read more