By David Plotz
ISBN-10: 0812970527
ISBN-13: 9780812970524
It used to be the main radical human-breeding scan in American background, and not anyone knew the way it grew to become out. The Repository for Germinal Choice–nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank–opened to infamous fanfare in 1980, and for 2 a long time, ladies flocked to it from all around the state to settle on a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists, mathematical prodigies, winning businessmen, and megastar athletes. however the financial institution quietly closed its doorways in 1999–its founder lifeless, its personal documents sealed, and the destiny of its youngsters and donors unknown. In early 2001, award-winning columnist David Plotz got down to remedy the secret of the Nobel Prize sperm bank.
Plotz wrote an editorial for Slate inviting readers to touch him–confidentially–if they knew something concerning the financial institution. the following morning, he obtained an electronic mail reaction, then one other, and another–each individual wanting to discuss whatever that they had saved hidden for years. Now, in The Genius Factory, Plotz unfolds the complete and miraculous tale of the Nobel Prize sperm financial institution and its founder’s radical scheme to alter our world.
Believing the US was once dealing with genetic disaster, Robert Graham, an eccentric millionaire, determined he may possibly opposite the decline by means of artificially inseminating girls with the sperm of geniuses. In February 1980, Graham opened the Repository for Germinal selection and stocked it with the seed of talented scientists, inventors, and thinkers. Over the following nineteen years, Graham’s “genius factory” produced greater than 2 hundred children.
What occurred to them? have been they the bright offspring that Graham anticipated? Did any of the “superman” fathers care concerning the unknown little kids who bore their genes? What have been the moms like?
Crisscrossing the rustic and logging numerous hours on-line, Plotz succeeded in monitoring down formerly unknown kin members–teenage half-brothers who ended up following significantly diverse paths, moms who had questioned for years in regards to the identities of the donors they'd chosen at the foundation of code names and short personality profiles, fathers who have been proud or ashamed or just thinking about the youngsters who have been made from their sperm samples.
The youngsters of the “genius factory” are messengers from the future–a destiny that's bearing down on us speedy. what is going to households be like while mom and dad normally “shop” for his or her kids’ genes? what is going to teenagers be like whilst they’re programmed for greatness? during this wonderful, eye-opening e-book, certainly one of our best younger reporters previews America’s coming age of genetic expectations.
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