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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] <blockquote>"So apparently the Augments weren't engineered by direct DNA recombination or other entirely-artificial means like that. (Actually, this is in line with Spock's 'selective breeding' line, though I'm not sure this actually qualifies as 'genetic engineering.') They have mothers and fathers. Smike's were a geophysicist named Miklos Karlovassi and and an Olympic silver medalist named Irina."</blockquote> Well, the genetic material had to come from somewhere. Presumably, it was better to use actual donated ova and sperm, rather than, say, cloning (which, as we know from TNG, could have the problem of replicative fading). They probably tried to pick smart/athletic donors so that they wouldn't have to do [i]as much[/i] tinkering. But there's no way they got those results through purely passive eugenics. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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