Episode: 26 Xenogenesis - Adulthood-Rites: I: LO Chapters 1 & 2

Show Notes

In episode 26, Richard and Michael finally delve into the Book 2 of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, Adulthood Rites.

Timestamps

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:32 - Welcome
00:02:27 - Chapter 1 predictions
00:04:01 - Chapter 1 summary begins
00:06:30 - Experience that no-one can remember
00:09:12 - Development of self-consciousness in babies [1, 2]
00:14:26 - Recalling memories corrupts them
00:16:34 - Richard’s earliest memory
00:18:03 - Continuation on chapter 1
00:18:43 - Chapter 1 ends
00:20:11 - Lilith’s other children?
00:24:32 - Chapter 2 predictions
00:24:46 - Chapter 2 starts
00:25:51 - Names and experience of Akin’s father, Joseph
00:28:55 - Learning about human body
00:32:40 - Akin can perceive finer and finer details within Lilith’s body
00:41:00 - A guy in labcoat licking a Petri dish
00:42:06 - Back to Chapter 2
00:45:09 - The Mask 2 baby
00:46:46 - Problems with male human-Oankali hybrids
00:54:51 - Male human-Oankali hybrids will be lonely wolves
00:55:37 - Men are more involved in families than their fathers and grandfathers in the past [3]
00:56:24 - Humans have very complex mating strategies [4]
01:02:29 - Ooliarchy?
01:04:58 - Go listen to Episode 25:GATTACA, watch the movie
01:05:47 - Back to Chapter 2 again
01:06:25 - Chapter 2 summary ends
01:08:31 - Previous predictions and chapter 3 prediction
01:11:30 - Not much on the genetic memory
01:13:03 - Outro

References

Consciousness development in babies:

• [1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/04/when-does-your-baby-become-conscious - a short article on baby consciousness.
• [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/pr200950 - An article stating that a foetus is constantly asleep in utero.

Men and family:

• [3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/12/fathers-day-facts/ - American Think-tank facts on the men and family.

Human mating strategies:

• [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mating_strategies - Complexity of human reproductive strategies

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