Clone: The Road to Dolly， and the Path Ahead

The birth of Dolly -- the world's first clone -- placed in our hands the secret of creation. Few discoveries have so altered our notion of what it means to be human， or presented such a Gordian knot of ethical， spiritual， and scientific questions. Noted science journalist Gina Kolata broke the news nationally in The New York Times and was the first reporter to speak with Dr. Ian Wilmut， the embryologist who cloned Dolly. Now Kolata reveals the story behind Dolly， interweaving the social and cultural tales of our fear and fascination with cloning， reaching back nearly a century， with the riveting scientific accountof how a clone came to be and the mind-boggling questions Dolly presents for o