Episode: 9 Xenogenesis - Dawn: II: Family Chapters 11 & 12

Show Notes

In Episode 9, Richard and Michael finish the part 2: Family of the book and discuss range of topics from animal and children’s’ rights, to biohacking and gene therapy.

Timestamps

00:00:31 - Intro
00:01:53 - Chapter 11 predictions
00:04:14 - Chapter 11 summary begins
00:05:30 - Oankali mating and inbreeding [1 - 3]
00:08:24 - Animal vs children rights (UK) [4 - 6]
00:09:35 - Why animals had more rights before children? Cuteness factor [7, 8]
00:11:30 - Back to Chapter 11 summary
00:13:40 - Oankali telepathy
00:14:56 - Neuralink and biohacking
00:20:14 - Back to Chapter 11 summary (again)
00:20:54 - Chapter 11 summary ends
00:22:20 - Chapter 12 predictions
00:23:08 - Chapter 12 summary begins
00:23:26 - The friend of everyone - Kahguyaht
00:24:40 - Biological 3D printing [9]
00:30:50 - Back to Chapter 12 summary
00:32:40 - Animals and humans [10 - 14]
00:41:05 - Back to Chapter 12
00:43:00 - “Locked-in” syndrome and conversation with coma patients [15 - 17]
00:48:50 - Back to Chapter 12 (again)
00:53:30 - If you smell an ooloi, you will die Lilith… [18]
01:00:40 - Chapter 12 continues
01:02:30 - End of Chapter 12 and part 2: Family of the book
01:04:00 - Discussion on the gene therapy in somatic and germ line [19]
01:09:02 - Discussion on super humans [20, 21]
01:21:24 - Part 3: Nursery, Chapter 1 predictions
01:24:40 - Outro

References

Inbreeding:

• [1] https://www.wikilectures.eu/w/Inbreeding,_Consanguinity_and_Inherited_Diseases - short article on the diseases associated with inbreeding.
• [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897632/ - another article discussing the issue of inbreeding with the focus on cancer.
• [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia_in_European_royalty - Haemophilia in the royal families.

Rights:

• [4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/defending/legislation_1.shtml - Animal rights started in 1822.
• [5] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/may/18/childrensservices2 - First children rights given in 1894.
• [6] https://www.rgs.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?nodeguid=7cc5f9a2-f270-4955-9e3a-f6aea7976d4f&lang=en-GB - But up until 1894, children were still to work more than 58-hour working weeks in the mines…

Cuteness factor:

• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness - Reasons why we prefer animals.
• [8] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00411/full - An article about the cuteness.

Neuralink:

• [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink - Wikipedia article on the neuralink.

3D printing:

• [9] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/nbt.2958 - Scientific review on the types of 3D printing.

Animals and humans:

• [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla) - Wiki about Koko.
• [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_(chimpanzee) - The experiment that Michael describes about a chimpanzee being brought up alongside a human baby.
• [12] https://timeline.com/dina-sanichar-feral-children-ea9f5f3a80b2 - Real life Mowgli.
• [13] https://www.history.com/news/6-famous-wild-children-from-history - More about children raised by animals.
• [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect - The Flynn effect that Richard talks about.

Coma:

• [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome - Wiki on the locked-in syndrome - a type of coma.
• [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma - Article about coma.
• [17] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/05/how-science-found-a-way-to-help-coma-patients-communicate - fMRI used to communicate with coma patients.

Pair-bonding:

• [18] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK97287/ - Article about pair-bonding in animal kingdom.

Cystic fibrosis treatment:

• [19] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/166451/gene-therapy-cystic-fibrosis-shows-encouraging/ - Article on the cystic fibrosis treatment.

SNPs and athletes:

• [20] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6724599/ - Article on SNPs and athletes
• [21] https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/genomicresearch/snp - What are SNPs?

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