One in ten men would like to be cloned like Dolly the Sheep – but only 4% of women – The Mirror

More than one in ten men would like to be cloned like Dolly the Sheep – compared to just 4% of women, new research has found.

New research also found men are twice as likely as women to want to live forever if science found a solution to mortality.

A YouGov poll, commissioned by the Theos think tank, found a huge gulf in opinion between men and women on their desire to extend their lives.

Some 25% of men would want to live forever, compared to just 12% of women.

And some 18% of men said the would choose to be cryogenically frozen – like Fry in Futurama – after their death.

Just 8% of women said they would choose to be frozen – among just 13% of the population at large.

Fry from Futurama was accidentally frozen for 1,000 years
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Channel 4)

Only a fifth of the 5,000 people surveyed said they would like to live forever if scientists found a way to engineer it.

It follows reports that Chinese researchers have developed a pig-cloning robot.

The new process uses Artificial Intelligence to reduce the amount of errors seen during manual cloning attempts.

According to the South China Morning Post, the fully-automated process was used to create seven piglets using a surrogate sow.

Dr Nick Spencer, Senior Fellow at Theos said, “People used to claim that religion had its origins in the human desire for immortality.

“But our study shows that immortality – at least the idea of living for ever on earth as we are – is not really that appealing to most people.”