Where did you find those claims?

Again, all I know about cloning - and as an avid science fiction reader with some knowledge of biology I have looked into it - boils down to this: when you clone you take the nucleus of one of the cells of the original and insert it into an egg cell after removing its original nucleus. This embryo is then put into the womb of a surrogate dam where it grows the same way a normally born embryo would before being born. So, with a human, that takes 9 months. Then after the baby is born, there is no way to speed up the growth without risking the end result, so you have to wait that 20 to 25 years before you get an adult (25 if we are thinking in terms of fully developed brain). And what you then have is of course a young adult.

Cloned individuals are more likely to have some sort of developmental defects but that is the only difference from what you'd have if you had a natural identical twin of the person. Because for all purposes they are an identical twin. That is what identical twins are after all, individuals born with the exact same DNA after a fertilized egg is split for some reason or another at an early stage of development, and then both halves keep developing normally.

And a human brain is a pretty damn complex structure. If you wanted an individual able to act like a normal human, not like a severely retarded one, you should probably not risk playing with that development in any way.

IF we assume there is some sort of hidden far more technologically advanced civilization - the UFOs - involved here I presume it might be possible that there could be some sort of biological robots - the word for those would be an android - involved that could be "build" in some other ways, but then they would not be clones.

A clone is the same as an identical twin, one produced with technology from an adult individual, but after the very first stage then developing and growing up - and aging - at the same speed as the adult individual once did.

Where did you find those claims?

Again, all I know about cloning - and as an avid science fiction reader with some knowledge of biology I have looked into it - boils down to this: when you clone you take the nucleus of one of the cells of the original and insert it into an egg cell after removing its original nucleus. This embryo is then put into the womb of a surrogate dam where it grows the same way a normally born embryo would before being born. So, with a human, that takes 9 months. Then after the baby is born, there is no way to speed up the growth without risking the end result, so you have to wait that 20 to 25 years before you get an adult (25 if we are thinking in terms of fully developed brain). And what you then have is of course a young adult.

Cloned individuals are more likely to have some sort of developmental defects but that is the only difference from what you'd have if you had a natural identical twin of the person. Because for all purposes they are an identical twin. That is what identical twins are after all, individuals born with the exact same DNA after a fertilized egg is split for some reason or another at an early stage of development, and then both halves keep developing normally.

And a human brain is a pretty damn complex structure. If you wanted an individual able to act like a normal human, not like a severely retarded one, you should probably not risk playing with that development in any way.

IF we assume there is some sort of hidden far more technologically advanced civilization - the UFOs - involved here I presume it might be possible that there could be some sort of biological robots - the word for those would be an android - involved that could be "build" in some other ways, but then they would not be clones.

A clone is the same as an identical twin, one produced with technology from an adult individual, but after the very first stage then developing and growing up at the same speed as the adult individual once did.

Where did you find those claims?

Again, all I know about cloning - and as an avid science fiction reader with some knowledge of biology I have looked into it - boils down to this: when you clone you take the nucleus of one of the cells of the original and insert it into an egg cell. This embryo is then put into the womb of a surrogate dam where it grows the same way a normally born embryo would before being born. So, with a human, that takes 9 months. Then after the baby is born, there is no way to speed up the growth without risking the end result, so you have to wait that 20 to 25 years before you get an adult (25 if we are thinking in terms of fully developed brain). And what you then have is of course a young adult.

Cloned individuals are more likely to have some sort of developmental defects but that is the only difference from what you'd have if you had a natural identical twin of the person. Because for all purposes they are an identical twin. That is what identical twins are after all, individuals born with the exact same DNA after a fertilized egg is split for some reason or another at an early stage of development, and then both halves keep developing normally.

And a human brain is a pretty damn complex structure. If you wanted an individual able to act like a normal human, not like a severely retarded one, you should probably not risk playing with that development in any way.

IF we assume there is some sort of hidden far more technologically advanced civilization - the UFOs - involved here I presume it might be possible that there could be some sort of biological robots - the word for those would be an android - involved that could be "build" in some other ways, but then they would not be clones.

A clone is the same as an identical twin, one produced with technology from an adult individual, but after the very first stage then developing and growing up at the same speed as the adult individual once did.