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...frogs," says the 57-year-old scientist, defiantly twirling his walrus mustache, "I see the entire universe." The more he learns about his frog-shaped universe, the more he worries about the human-shaped conscience. Biologists, says he in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ask themselves whether they can improve on nature. "Who can fail to see the seriousness of this program . . .? What will happen on the day science will have given us the possibility of determining the sex of our offspring? . . . Was it not much easier to rely on unpredictable chance?" What about "therapy of the spirit...
...scientist, Dr. Rostand naturally holds aloof from moral implications-but as a Frenchman, he is sure that, once parthenogenesis is possible, some women will want to try it. And that really scares him: "It is thus inevitable that a new kind of human being (according to our present knowledge they will all be girls) -will appear in society, and will be aware of their extraordinary origin . . . Realization of the fact that the male has ceased to be necessary for propagation will not fail to exercise a profound effect on the relations between man and woman...
...disagree with the scientist and maintain that the Kogi male just doesn't like soup...
...Lotus' observations convinced him of a second point. He did not hear the faint, soft pop of opening petals that has echoed for centuries through Japanese literature. Some years ago on a summer morning, the skeptical scientist dragged recording equipment to the shore of a lotus pond. There he assured himself that the modern flower blooms in silent beauty. Last week he "listened" to a prehistoric plant open to morning sunlight. Smiling till his tiny eyes all but disappeared in his face, he had bad news for sentimentalists: in spite of all that the poets have said, even...
Last year Zoologist Charles Wharton, an adventurous young (28) scientist financed by the Coolidge Foundation, set out for Cambodia to study the kouprey, an elusive and nearly extinct wild ox. Back in the U.S. last week, he had learned a lot about the kouprey, despite the hazards of scientific research in IndoChina's guerrilla-infested jungles...