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...electrodes and gestation. But now there's double helix, DNA and ribosomes, With biological syntliesis-and not just one's chromosomes. Instead of simple worries, such as merely being stoned, I've got to face a future now in which I may get cloned. Alas Homo futurus! There's lots more to learn, it seems. I thought one told the boys from girls by lowering their genes...
...were first discovered in Germany's Neander Valley a century ago, his name has been synonymous with brutishness: a squat, shambling creature who wooed his women with a club and sometimes ate his fellow men when he was hungry. Scientists have long doubted this harsh popular image of Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthal man. Now, as the evidence accumulates, Neanderthal man is rapidly being rehabilitated into a more attractive ancestor of modern...
...alive until he met his death in an accidental rockfall inside the cave, a common peril for these communal hunters who lived from 100,000 to 40,000 years ago. Comments Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon: "On the grounds of behavior alone, the Shanidar folk merit the title of Homo sapiens...
Together they may eventually shape Homo futurus, a creature resembling the Superman of the Nietzschean and Shavian dream?or at least one whose powers will be dramatically different from contemporary...
...year history, Homo sapiens has found it harder to fathom the depths of his mind than to unlock the secrets of his body. But the discoveries of molecular biology may well show the way to a new comprehension; they may make it possible, through genetic engineering, surgery, drug therapy and electrical stimulation, to mold not only the body but also the mind...