Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People

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"Can we make a human being? That question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the homunculus of the medieval alchemists and the clay golem of Jewish legend to Frankenstein's monster and the mass-produced test-tube babies in 'Brave New World'. All of these efforts to create artificial people are more or less fanciful, but they have taken deep root in Western culture.

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