From On the Human, Karen Strier on the challenge of comparisons in primatology. A review of The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science by Amanda Rees. A closer look at evolutionary faces: “Paleo-artist” John Gurche has recreated strikingly realistic heads of our earliest human ancestors. If man were a qualitative jump off the quantitative progression of evolution, then what was the first quality? Our microbes, ourselves: We are home to whole worlds of bacteria; new research suggests that they can tell our history and, perhaps, our future. A review of Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett. If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do so. What determines the price of a woman's eggs? SAT scores. Are sperm donors really anonymous? DNA testing makes them easy to trace. Selecting our children: Peter Singer on prenatal testing of fetuses. Who’s your Daddy, or your other Daddy, or your Mommy? Why reproductive contracts should trump genetic ties. Inside India’s Rent-A-Womb Business: Gestational dormitories, routine c-sections, quintuple embryo implants — Brave New World? Nope, surrogacy tourism. Ten years after the completion of the human genome’s first draft, the expected revolution in medicine and research has only partly come to pass. The case against gene patents: Genetic sequences are naturally occurring things, not inventions. A review of Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine. A review of Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem. Lawrence Krauss on human uniqueness and the future and our unparalleled ability to shape the world's evolution. A review of Mapping the Future of Biology: Evolving Concepts and Theories.
