G. Rattray Taylor, "one of the very best and most readable of all writers on science" (Daily Telegraph), takes the reader on a startling voyage of discovery into the world of t re New Biology.
Imagine a child born 100 years after its father's death . . . human life-spans doubled. . . weird hybrids, part man, part animal . . . genetic warfare... human reproduction without sex... control of mind, mood and memory by drugs and other means. Imagine all this (and more) and then realise that it is not science-fiction but a reality likely to come about within the next few decades. This book opens our eyes to the emotional, financial, moral and social problems which we and our children will probably have to face as the result of experiments and discoveries being made now.