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The "Genius Babies," and How They Grew Up
URL: http://www.slate.com/id/100331/

Description:
Articles from 2001 about how "twenty years ago ... tycoon Robert K. Graham began a most remarkable project: the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners," and about how "by the time Graham's repository closed in 1999, his genius sperm had been responsible for more than 200 children." Includes information about donors, parents, 15 of the children, and more. From the online magazine Slate.

Author:
Plotz, David

Publisher:
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC

Extra Keywords
eugenics seed project genetics

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Intellect -- Genetic aspects
Nobel Prizes
Sperm banks

LII Database Information:
Record 14976 created by Maria Brandt on 07/03/2005
Last modification on 11/03/2005
Last review by Tom McGibney on 11/02/2005
Published: 07/03/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14976