sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com - 4/17/2009
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Back in February 2003 bioethicist Gregory Stock gave a TED talk where he speculates that biotechnology - particularly genetic engineering and individually tailored personalized medicine - will ultimately "drive" our evolution: He thinks the human genome project was the first step in ...
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SF Tidbits for 4/17/09
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... better than the so-called "serious writers" or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?" [via Charles Coleman Finlay]
How Marie Brennan writes female characters.
John Scalzi offers up A Case Study in Vanity, Courtesy of Battlefield Earth.
Heather at Galaxy Express apparently has an unnatural obsession for Bug-Eyed Monsters In Love.
Peggy at Biology in Science Fiction is thinking about The Next Phase of Human Evolution.
Tor shares some nice minimalist covers for ...
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