How to go about it? Who gets to contribute their “genetic material,” and who doesn’t? He could let entire races of people go extinct. Really, he would have to. He couldn’t possibly get a sample from all of them, and no one would be alive to exclaim, Quelle éthique! Race and ethnicity would be a thing of the past. There would be no cultures left to appropriate. Divorced from human civilization, history was nothing but data, and culture was only what Kaveh, Cora, and whatever other poor unfortunate broodmares Nikola absconded with remembered. And what could that possibly mean to some child who
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