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SUMMARY:Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures - Alison Bashford\, Vere Ha
 rmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History\, Fellow of Jesus College
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DESCRIPTION:If the futures of assisted reproductive technologies are being
  created now\, our own present was created by past generations. This is bo
 th strange and sobering\, given how swiftly ideas\, technologies\, needs a
 nd desires change. Retrospects as well as prospects are important. In this
  lecture I consider the reproductive futures envisioned by one of the twen
 tieth-century’s most intriguing polymath-biologists\, Julian Huxley. Aut
 hor of Evolution: the Modern Synthesis\, inventor of the term ‘transhuma
 nism’\, first Director-General of UNESCO\, Huxley synthesised and commun
 icated the work of the great geneticists\, molecular biologists and reprod
 uctive physiologists of the day. Many of them (Crick\, Pincus\, Lederberg\
 , Muller) met at a conference in 1963\, “Man and his Future”. This lec
 ture focuses on this meeting\, one that opened with Huxley’s visions for
  the “biological future of mankind”. In 1963\, the future hinged on as
 sisted reproductive technologies as a solution\, but not on infertility as
  a problem.\n\n\nAlison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial 
 and Naval History\, and Fellow of Jesus College\, Cambridge. Most recently
 \, she is author of Global Population: History\, Geopolitics and Life on E
 arth (Columbia\, 2014) and co-author\, with Joyce E. Chaplin\, of The New 
 Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (P
 rinceton\, 2016).
LOCATION:Bentley Room\, The Pitt Building
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