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The synthesized prehistory of South-West Asia, from the cultural emergence of modern humans as sophisticated and mobile hunter-gatherers in South-West Asia around 50,000 years ago, to the time when a dense population of villagers and mixed farming economies existed throughout the region around 8,000 years ago. It is the story of the momentous transformation of human society and culture; after the seemingly endless millennia of small-scale, mobile, hunting and gathering peoples there emerged a way of life that we can recognize as the foundations of our own. It is an account of the emergence in...

Should transhuman and posthuman persons ever be brought into existence? And if so, could they be generated in a good and loving way? This study explores how society may respond to the actual generation of new kinds of persons from ethical, philosophical, and theological perspectives. Contributors to this volume address a number of essential questions, including the ethical ramifications of generating new life, the relationships that generators may have with their creations, and how these creations may consider their generation. This collection's interdisciplinary approach traverses the...