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...highlands of East Africa in search of man's origins. Today their son Richard spends much of his time in further examination of sun-scorched barrens in northern Kenya. He has found enough clues to burnish the names of two families: the Leakeys and the larger tribe of Homo sapiens...
...cloner, and offered no evidence that the state of the art had advanced to the point at which mice, let alone human beings, could be cloned. While many of the technical problems involved in the test-tube conception of a human are being resolved, the cloning of Homo sapiens is still far beyond the current capability of medical science...
This technique has enormous implications for both laboratory research and animal husbandry. A particular strain of mouse needed for experiments could be duplicated in great numbers, as could prize dairy cows, horses, sheep and pigs. But cloning human beings by the same procedure is another story. Homo sapiens is a mongrel breed. Unlike domesticated or laboratory animals, man has not had harmful and even lethal genes bred out of him. These genes remain in humans, many as recessives, suppressed by dominant normal genes. If humans could be cloned by Markert's method, these recessive genes could come...
Freshmen and their proctors also realize the peculiar nature of their situations, which call for enduring intense living, studying and social circumstances. "This is a strange society for we Homo sapiens to live in. The traditional civilized way of responding may not be the right way," Charles J. Duffy '77, a proctor in Thayer, says. "Perhaps the greater tension in the Yard may be due to overcrowding. When you live in the bunk above someone else, you are forced to get to know each other more rapidly than you would if you were in the next room over...
...difference. Even if the visitors turned out to look like bug-eyed monsters or gelatinous blobs, such species might serve to enlarge the vision of the Creator's creativity. To theologians the "image of God," after all, does not refer to the type of body that characterizes Homo sapiens but to the intellect and spirit that reside therein...