The New Age of Man
Scientists were once content just to try to rid us of fatal diseases. Now, some of them are actually trying to extend the human life cycle. But will we be …
On the fruit flies Michael Rose started with: "They were, in Rose's words, 'trailer-park flies': quick to reach sexual maturity, capable of laying a thousand eggs in their five-week period of fertility, and for a few hours, just after they reach maturation, possessed of almost dizzying sexual prowess."