ADJUSTING GENES
Scientist’s Forecast (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) PHOENIX (Arizona), Jan. 18. Some day, science might produce a human being of the third sex—neither male nor female —-and then a fourth sex which would be a manwoman, a Canadian scientist predicted today.
Dr. K. A. McCully, of Ottawa, pesticides chemist for the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare, said the development of third and fourth sexes Ifad become conceivable because of strides being made in manipulation of the genes and chromosomes of humans.
Some parents might take advantage of science and choose their children by sex, he said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30962, 19 January 1966, Page 17
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98ADJUSTING GENES Press, Volume CV, Issue 30962, 19 January 1966, Page 17
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