Word: embryologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still find the literate, initialed articles by world-renowned experts that are the Britannica's hallmark -but, say the editors, without the overlaps, omissions and inconsistencies of earlier editions. There is Arnold Toynbee on Julius Caesar and leading American Catholic Theologian John L. McKenzie on Roman Catholicism, English Embryologist Sir Gavin de Beer on evolution and Carl Sagan (see BOOKS) on the planets and extraterrestrial life. The late Sir Tyrone Guthrie writes about theater, Anthony Burgess examines the novel, Alan Lomax discusses singing, and Barnaby Conrad summarizes bullfighting. Although more than half the scholarly contributors are American or English...
...Would the cloned child develop a sibling rivalry with its biological parent? Would he face a severe identity crisis, being someone else's "duplicate"? Beyond such considerations, a number of scientists and ethicists would list cloning among those things that men should never do, even if they can. Says Embryologist Robert T. Francoeur, author of Utopian Motherhood: "Xeroxing of people? It shouldn't be done in the labs, even once, with humans...