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The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’

All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.

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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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The men who meddled with nature

The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.

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  • Front cover of catalogue "Birth and Breeding", 1993
  • Report of the Third International Conference 1906 on Genetics : hybridisation (the cross-breeding of genera or species), the cross-breeding of varieties, and general plant-breeding / edited by W. Wilks.
  • Report of the Third International Conference 1906 on Genetics : hybridisation (the cross-breeding of genera or species), the cross-breeding of varieties, and general plant-breeding / edited by W. Wilks.
  • Mosquito breeding ground in a hole in a tree trunk: museum exhibit. Photograph, 1900/1930.
  • The anti-malaria school, Nettuno, Italy: a wooden mosquito breeding cage in a classroom. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A man sitting in a tree with a pipe leading from his mouth to a hole in the trunk (destroying a mosquito breeding area ?). Photograph, 1880/1910.
  • Unsound speculative schemes (tunneling, gas lighting and stock breeding), with W.H. Brown in attendance next to a statue of Hope. Aquatint by S. De Wilde, 1809.
  • Mounds of horse-manure coated with sand and oil to prevent fly breeding, with Western (British?) men in military dress, Suez Canal Zone, Egypt (?). Photograph, ca. 1914.
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
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