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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
Intelligence comes in different forms. You might be a tribesman for example who cannot read or write, but who is very intelligent in terms of things like planning, strategy, tactics, etc...for things ranging from hunting to warfare. On the other hand, you could be great at mathematics and computer progrmaming, but terrible at the type of intelligence the tribesman has. So humans could have lacked in academic intelligence but still been smart in other ways in old times.
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Too many people are confusing knowledge and experience with intelligence.
People are not born (or cloned) with an understanding of tools, construction, math, strategy, etc.
Cloned humans would be born with a blank slate, just like the rest of us. Our knowledge and experience make us what we are.
Evolution is rarely fast, in the big scheme of things. Odds are, the 5,000 year old clone would be whatever you taught and trained him to be, whether it was a hunter, a fry cook, a rocket scientist, or a soldier.
Physiologically, I doubt that you could tell the difference over 5,000 years. If the clone ate our diet, had our medical and dental care, etc., they would be regular people, just like us.
TR