A 12-year-old named Jason came home from school with a shocking question. “Mom,” he asked, “who’s lying—you or my teacher?”…
“New Fossils Add to Man’s Family Tree,” announced a recent headline in the Arizona Republic. In the story, paleontologists claimed that…
This summer Dr. Lee Silver, author of Remaking Eden, predicted the first human clone would be born within a mere six…
In the beginning was the Original Replicant, floating in a test tube. Then came the Mutants, deformed by harsh ultraviolet…
Eighty years ago, psychologist and researcher James Leuba made a prediction that scandalized America: As people became better educated in…
Not long ago, an ancient burial cave was excavated in Jerusalem. One casket had a name carved on it: “Joseph,…
Hunting fossils is a hard job, painstakingly scraping away sand under a baking sun. And when the animals you’re looking…
In the classic science-fiction film Blade Runner, geneticists have created a line of clones—exact genetic copies of human beings. These clones…
In a recent cover story, Time magazine told the story of the Cambrian explosion, when virtually all the blueprints for…
Old MacDonald would never recognize some of the creatures on today’s farms–thanks to genetic engineering. At the University of California,…
