Argues that death is not unchanging, but rather has evolved over time.
In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the ...(Read More)
Becoming Immortal
(April 2002)
Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy Stanley Shostak - Author
Explores how new organs might be engineered via cloning and reproductive technology to achieve human immortality.
Providing the philosophical, practical, and theoretical leverage for abandoning evolution and development in favor of engineering human beings, Becoming Immortal examines the directions biological change might take if civilization were to take charge of its own destiny. With the aid of embryonic man...(Read More)
