The Neanderthal were the first humans to live in Ice Age conditions, surviving by hunting the largest and most formidable Pleistocene mammals--the mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, and wild cattle. ... These artists' reconstructions depict the rugged hunting life of the ice-age Europeans of our species [often called Cro-Magnon after an early discovery site in France]. ...
They carved the so-called Venus figures, ritual statuettes of bone, and made outline drawings on cave walls. ... The wild horse was their chief quarry. ... This is a clear indication that human populations developed new and ingenious ways to catch and kill animals, while the same time they devoted more energy to fishing and the collection of wild plant foods. ...
"A Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley, uses a fine irony that calls into question the very foundations of society, being exposed to light the ills of a society in decline, pointing out its horror and its enormous vacuum. ... It is a world in which there are no feelings and no taboos, in which the most obscene words that can come out of a person's mouth are "father" or "mother", because the individuals are obtained from a process of fertilization in- vitro and where people will be governed for life by means of a drug called "soma". A world apparently perfect and ideal for its inhabitants,...
For instance, wheat without GM trait cannot stay alive in the wild as it is unable to disperse its seed. ... Studies have proved that nowadays, "insect-resistant plants (maize, soybean, cotton, etc.) have been obtained by introducing into the plant genome the gene of a bacterium (Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt) coding for a protein (called Bt protein) which is toxic for insects (for instance insects which attack maize, rice, cotton, etc. and can cause important yield losses), but not for man, animals or the environment" (Weil 312). ...
