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Wendy Nielsen returns to Morbid Anatomy with an illustrated talk about transhumanism, the belief that technology will transform some humans into superior, immortal beings. The belief that science may make people superhuman has a long prehistory that coincides with the eugenics movement. Once repudiated as ableist and racist, eugenics has reemerged under the term liberal eugenics, which touts the possibility of longevity and curing human ailments. This talk, drawing on her book Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890, will touch on automatons, golems, and other precursors to robots but focuses on the present dangers of biohacking, designer children, private research sponsored by billionaires, and the ethics surrounding sentient, non-human life forms.