| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| About the Title of the Book | p. 1 |
| Risks of Writing this Book | p. 3 |
| The Title Revisited | p. 6 |
| What Has Gravity Got To Do with This Book? | p. 7 |
| One-Handed Scientist | p. 9 |
| Information Cornucopia | p. 12 |
| Will the Y Chromosome Decay and Take Men with It? | p. 13 |
| A Goal of This Book | p. 15 |
| Inside This Book | p. 15 |
| Best Use of This Book | p. 19 |
| A Primer on Genetics | p. 21 |
| Living Things | p. 21 |
| Tinkering Using Technology | p. 24 |
| Survival of the Fittest | p. 27 |
| How Genetics Changed the Course of History | p. 29 |
| Timeline of Genetics | p. 30 |
| Sex - A Primal Instinct | p. 37 |
| The Primal Instinct for Sex | p. 37 |
| Emperor Penguins | p. 37 |
| Salmons | p. 39 |
| Pacific Grunions | p. 39 |
| Other Aspects of Sex | p. 40 |
| Sex Reigns - Birds and Bees Do It, But Why? | p. 41 |
| Models of Co-Evolution | p. 42 |
| The Deleterious Mutation Hypothesis | p. 43 |
| The Red Queen Hypothesis | p. 44 |
| Computer Simulations | p. 46 |
| Supporting Evidence | p. 47 |
| Scandal without Sex | p. 48 |
| Selfish Genes | p. 49 |
| Selfishly Altruistic Kin Selection | p. 50 |
| Mating Dance | p. 53 |
| Basic Instinct | p. 53 |
| Scents of Love | p. 54 |
| Cupid's Chemicals | p. 55 |
| Mating Dance | p. 56 |
| Of Man and Ape | p. 57 |
| Sexual Matrimony and Polyamory | p. 58 |
| And Less Love | p. 60 |
| Tug of War, In Utero | p. 64 |
| Back into the Past and Future | p. 65 |
| Quest for Perfection | p. 67 |
| Beauty Lies in the Eyes of the Beholder | p. 67 |
| Ancient Definition of Perfection | p. 68 |
| Search for the Perfect Face | p. 69 |
| Search for Hour-Glass Figure | p. 71 |
| The Myth of Beauty | p. 73 |
| The Cute Factor | p. 74 |
| No Choice for Baby | p. 77 |
| Selective Paternal Reproduction | p. 79 |
| The Founding of Rome | p. 81 |
| Selective Maternal Reproduction | p. 82 |
| Eugenics | p. 83 |
| First Stage | p. 84 |
| Second Stage | p. 85 |
| Third Stage | p. 88 |
| Fourth Stage | p. 89 |
| Invisible Hand in the Human Body Shop | p. 91 |
| The Human Life Cycle | p. 91 |
| The Reproductive Cycle | p. 92 |
| Sex Hormones | p. 94 |
| Inside the Womb | p. 95 |
| Birth Defects | p. 98 |
| The Invisible Hand in Human Body Commerce | p. 102 |
| From Alchemy to Algeny | p. 103 |
| In Vitro Fertilization | p. 105 |
| IVF the Aussie Style | p. 108 |
| The Business of In Vitro Fertilization | p. 110 |
| IVF Children | p. 111 |
| Donor Insemination | p. 112 |
| DI Half-Siblings | p. 114 |
| Hello Dolly, Good-Bye Dolly | p. 115 |
| Clonology | p. 119 |
| Parthenogenesis - Virgin Birth | p. 119 |
| Cloning | p. 120 |
| Clonology | p. 121 |
| Cloning Hollywood Style | p. 129 |
| The Celebrated Dolly, But Second to Computer Chips | p. 130 |
| Clones of Clones of a Clone | p. 134 |
| Jerky Bulls and Yang Cows | p. 136 |
| Second Chance - Clone of the Oldest Bull | p. 137 |
| Artificial Monkey Twins | p. 138 |
| Clone of a Clone - More Bulls | p. 140 |
| Cloned Piglets | p. 141 |
| Reversing Aging | p. 142 |
| Other Notable Cloning Efforts | p. 143 |
| Jurassic Amusement Park? | p. 144 |
| More Calves and Piglets | p. 146 |
| More Endangered Species Cloned | p. 148 |
| Multi-Legged Bio-X | p. 149 |
| Multi-Legged Bio-Reactors | p. 149 |
| Multi-Legged Bio-Facturers | p. 152 |
| Nature Versus Nano | p. 154 |
| Multi-Legged Bio-Models | p. 155 |
| Multi-Legged Bio-Factories | p. 156 |
| Petory and Biofactory | p. 159 |
| PerPETually Yours | p. 159 |
| K-9 Cloning | p. 160 |
| Snuppy | p. 162 |
| Dupli-Cat | p. 164 |
| Cc: Genetic Anomaly | p. 165 |
| Commercial Grade Pet Cloning | p. 166 |
| Cloning Rabbitly | p. 168 |
| A Stubborn Clone | p. 169 |
| Cloned Equine Twin of Surrogate Mother | p. 171 |
| Ethically Yours | p. 172 |
| Odd-Inarily Yours | p. 173 |
| Cloning Techniques | p. 179 |
| Twins - Twice the Fun | p. 179 |
| Nonidentical Twins - Siblings of the Same Age | p. 179 |
| Identical Twins - Natural Clones | p. 180 |
| Mirror Image and Conjoined Twins | p. 181 |
| Interest in Twins | p. 183 |
| Identical Twins are More Identical Than Clones | p. 184 |
| En Route to Commercialization | p. 187 |
| Artificial Twinning Technique | p. 188 |
| Nuclear Transfer Technique | p. 191 |
| The Roslin Technique | p. 192 |
| The Honolulu Technique | p. 194 |
| The Chromatin Transfer Technique | p. 195 |
| Twinning Roslin in Honolulu | p. 197 |
| Honolulu Versus Dolly | p. 198 |
| First Male Clone | p. 199 |
| Reproductive Human Cloning | p. 203 |
| Super Clones? | p. 203 |
| Tinkering with Conception | p. 204 |
| Natural Birth Versus Cloning | p. 206 |
| Hardware and Software of Sexual Reproduction | p. 207 |
| Hardware and Software of Cloning | p. 209 |
| Physiology of Human Cloning | p. 210 |
| Key Human Cloning Mavericks | p. 212 |
| Richard Seed | p. 213 |
| Claude Vorilhon and Brigitte Boisselier | p. 214 |
| Severino Antinori | p. 216 |
| Panayiotis Zavos | p. 217 |
| Avi Ben-Abraham | p. 218 |
| Human Embryo "Clones" | p. 220 |
| Clone Abortion | p. 221 |
| Why Hybrid? | p. 223 |
| The "Clone" Stork - Real or Rael? | p. 224 |
| The Alchemy of Stem Cells | p. 227 |
| Organ Transplant | p. 227 |
| Growing Human Organs? | p. 229 |
| Stem Cell | p. 231 |
| Derivation of Stem Cells | p. 232 |
| Banking Embryonic and Fetal Parts | p. 234 |
| Lifeline - Cord Blood | p. 235 |
| Multipotent Adult Stem Cells | p. 238 |
| Stem Cells from Fat | p. 242 |
| Medical Uses of Stem Cells | p. 246 |
| Stem Cell Gold Mines | p. 247 |
| Growing Breast from a Stem Cell | p. 251 |
| Regenerative Medicine | p. 253 |
| Why Regenerative Medicine? | p. 254 |
| Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research | p. 256 |
| Regeneration, Stem Cells and Aging | p. 258 |
| Master Cells and Master Genes | p. 261 |
| Stem Cell Entities | p. 265 |
| Stem Cell Nations | p. 265 |
| Sweden | p. 267 |
| United Kingdom | p. 268 |
| Australia | p. 269 |
| Singapore | p. 271 |
| Israel | p. 272 |
| Japan | p. 274 |
| India | p. 275 |
| China | p. 276 |
| Korea | p. 277 |
| United States | p. 279 |
| Case Study: Harvard Stem Cell Institute | p. 281 |
| Case Study: California Institute of Regenerative Medicine | p. 282 |
| East Versus West | p. 285 |
| A Shenanigans of Scandalous Proportion | p. 287 |
| The Rise to International Stardom | p. 288 |
| The Fall from Grace | p. 292 |
| The Repercussions | p. 301 |
| How Did It Happen? | p. 303 |
| The Way to the Top | p. 303 |
| The Way to Demise | p. 305 |
| The Bits and Pieces | p. 305 |
| The Characters: Accomplices and Foes | p. 307 |
| Hwang Versus Raelians | p. 311 |
| Synopsis of the Dogged Reports | p. 313 |
| Legal and Ethical Issues | p. 317 |
| How? What? Why? | p. 317 |
| Therapeutic and Reproductive Cloning | p. 320 |
| Secret Projects | p. 321 |
| Stigma of Cloning | p. 322 |
| Ten AD (After Dolly) | p. 323 |
| Cloning as an Assisted Reproductive Technology | p. 323 |
| All is Fine Unless You are the Clone | p. 324 |
| Where Science Meets the Public | p. 326 |
| Issues with Human Cloning | p. 330 |
| Cloning as Reprotech | p. 333 |
| Ethical Issues with Cloning | p. 335 |
| My Father is My Twin | p. 335 |
| Can a Clone Run for U.S. Presidency? | p. 337 |
| The Genie is Out of the Bottle | p. 340 |
| In Vitro Fertilization Debate | p. 341 |
| Reproductive Cloning De JaVu | p. 342 |
| Overcoming Legal and Ethical Impasse | p. 343 |
| Private Funding | p. 345 |
| Model Organisms | p. 345 |
| Vertebrates | p. 346 |
| Invertebrates | p. 347 |
| Plants | p. 347 |
| Microorganisms | p. 347 |
| Circumventing Ethical Impasse | p. 348 |
| Message in a Bottle from the Future | p. 354 |
| To Clone or Not to Clone? | p. 355 |
| Why? Why Not! | p. 356 |
| Clone the Law | p. 357 |
| At the Crossroad | p. 359 |
| Relatively and Genetically Speaking | p. 359 |
| Divinity Versus Greed | p. 362 |
| The Invisible Hand | p. 363 |
| Fictitious Commodities | p. 365 |
| Tapping into Human Resources | p. 366 |
| Mendel and Darwin | p. 367 |
| The Invisible Body | p. 369 |
| Sexual Reproduction Versus Cloning | p. 373 |
| Excellent References | p. 377 |
| Food for Thoughts | p. 379 |
| Index | p. 387 |
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