The bit about artificial gametes from skin cells is intriguing to me.
I find our species procreation to be crude and inefficient and too random. Sex is a sensory experience, but procreation process is just messed up. It doesn’t seem like an elegant or intelligent design.
Having said that, the idea of cloning self as a form of procreation+immortality is appealing to me.
How would that work? The podcast doesn’t delve deep enough into that subject.
[quote]Sex, reproduction, and marriage have been linked for most of human history, but today that paradigm is evolving. This season of Anatomy of Next we’ve looked at every aspect of turning Mars into a habitable world. Now what about the changes in biology that are going to alter the way we populate our world? From artificial gametes derived from skin cells and genetically-modified embryos to artificial gestation – this is the future of sex.[/quote..]
I find our species procreation to be crude and inefficient and too random. Sex is a sensory experience, but procreation process is just messed up. It doesn’t seem like an elegant or intelligent design.
Having said that, the idea of cloning self as a form of procreation+immortality is appealing to me.
How would that work? The podcast doesn’t delve deep enough into that subject.
[quote]Sex, reproduction, and marriage have been linked for most of human history, but today that paradigm is evolving. This season of Anatomy of Next we’ve looked at every aspect of turning Mars into a habitable world. Now what about the changes in biology that are going to alter the way we populate our world? From artificial gametes derived from skin cells and genetically-modified embryos to artificial gestation – this is the future of sex.[/quote..]