From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 23:51:54 MDT
At 10:37 PM 7/14/02 -0700, spike wrote:
>Last month's Scientific American ran an article on delayed sexual
>maturity in orangutans as a function of their social rank. This is
>an example of hormonal development moderated by a strictly
>environmental factor in primates. This observation leads me to
>believe that the appropriate medications could conceivably delay
>onset of pubescence in humans.
Such artificially-amplified neoteny is one basis of the society in my novel
TRANSCENSION. (They're put through physiological maturity at Thirty.)
Damien Broderick
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