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How to grow a human : adventures in who we are and how we are made / Philip Ball

This work analyses human identity and the self in the context of genetic editing, cloning and neural technology. It explores the evolution of consciousness and argues for a concept of personhood grounded in the physical body rather than abstract data.

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