Untangling Twinning: What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos
(Part of the Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics Series)
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Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The fact that a single embryo can split to generate two (or more) genetically identical embryos seems to defy the notion that prior to splitting an embryo can...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:026810705X
ISBN13:9780268107055
Release Date:February 2020
Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press
Length:196 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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