【類別】科學科普

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Do you know that:

Humans have been tinkering with heredity for thousands of years?


Infanticides of the past were ceremonially elevated to be a form of human sacrifice
to dissimulate the main purpose?


Shadows of our savannah past cast over our modern mores and ways of life?


People have different sexual orientations: heterosexual, homosexual arising from
developmental processes?


Sexual reproduction is evolutionarily inefficient?


There is an invisible hand guiding the current commercialization of human body
shop and human reproduction?


Animals have been cloned with regularity?


The cat has been cloned, but the dog has not, at least not yet?


More than 100,000 assisted reproductive procedures are carried out each year,
in the U.S. alone?


Some thirty human " clones " are born each day, in the U.S. alone?


Clones will never grow up to be exactly identical to their progenitors?


Legally a clone can run for U.S. presidency?


Our first reaction to a human clone can be stranger than you might think?

For answers to these and many other fascinating and tantalizing
questions, we are pleased to bring to you our newest English title on the hot
topic of cloning:

▼ 內容簡介 BOOK CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 2: A Primer on Genetics

Chapter 3: Sex - A Primal Instinct

Chapter 4: Mating Dance

Chapter 5: Quest for Perfection

Chapter 6: Invisible Hand in The Human Body Shop

Chapter 7: Clonology

Chapter 8: Petory and Biofactory

Chapter 9: Cloning Techniques

Chapter 10: Reproductive Human Cloning

Chapter 11: The Alchemy of Stem Cells

Chapter 12: Legal and Ethical Issues

Chapter 13: At the Crossroad

Excellent References

Food for Thoughts

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:

"This masterpiece represents a modern day expose of the
consequences of human cloning rather than reproduction by sexual encounters in
our society. The comprehensive review of mating habits in different species will
serve as an invaluable reference text for educational purposes. The importance
of human intimacy in procreation is beautifully presented from an ethical and
factual point of view, reminding us of the true value of human relationships."

Dr. Betty S. Pace, MD

Associate Professor

Associate Director, Sickle Cell Research Center

University of Texas at Dallas

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

USA

"There are a lot of misunderstandings about cloning, particularly
cloning for therapeutic ends. This book skillfully compares and contrasts natural
reproduction, therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Read this book and
you will never view reproduction, cloning for reproductive purposes and cloning
for therapeutic purposes in the same way again. I highly recommend this great
book for general readership, life science or legal ethics class reading."

Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, Ph.D.

Inventor of the Honolulu Technique, and Cloner of the first adult mouse.

Head of Laboratory

Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming.

Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN Kobe 2-2-3

Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, JAPAN