Word: huxley
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There are, of course, technical hurdles along the way. Suppressing the equivalent "head" gene in man. Incubating tiny infant organs to grow into larger ones that adults could use. And creating artificial wombs (as per Aldous Huxley), given that it might be difficult to recruit sane women to carry headless fetuses to their birth/death...
...there will be no stopping that either. Ban human cloning in America, as in England, and it will develop on some island of Dr. Moreau. The possibilities are as endless as they are ghastly: human hybrids, clone armies, slave hatcheries, "delta" and "epsilon" sub-beings out of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...
Though sterile bottles harboring mass-produced baby boys and girls are not yet rolling gently along conveyor belts, as suggested in Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World, the thought that this could be a real possibility has ethicists, religious leaders and concerned citizens voicing their alarm over the new technology...
DIED. ELSPETH HUXLEY, 89, prolific British author who returned repeatedly, in person and evocative prose, to the African landscapes of her childhood; in Tetbury, England. Huxley grew up in Kenya hunting game, playing polo and observing the Kikuyu servants--memories she revived to popular acclaim in The Flame Trees of Thika...
...biological roots of sin are not by themselves a news flash from the frontiers of science. More than a century ago, Thomas Huxley, Darwin's popularizer, lamented the fact that evolution has given all children "the instinct of unlimited self-assertion"--"their dose of original sin." But the past few decades have brought a deeper Darwinian understanding of human nature, and some of its pioneers believe Huxley underestimated our badness...