It's not clear the genetic component is what matters here; you could equally well suggest that Tao's parents should adopt and raise lots of other smart kids. Th

It's not clear the genetic component is what matters here; you could equally well suggest that Tao's parents should adopt and raise lots of other smart kids. Though cloning 1000 Terry Taos would certainly be an interesting investigation into nature/nature. In any case IQ >150 is not that rare; there are hundreds of thousands of such people alive right now even just in the US. Clearly there are other qualifications to be a mathematical genius. It'd be a wonderful thing if we could reproduce those qualities, but I don't think we know enough right now to say that genetic cloning is the appropriate path.