Chimera

Aaron T. Norton and Ozzie Zehner, "Which Half Is Mommy? Tetragametic Chimerism and Trans-Subjectivity," Women's Studies Quarterly Vol. 36 (2008), 106-125.

Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Picador, 2002.

James Hughes. Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To The Redesigned Human Of The Future. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2004.

Joel Garreau, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human. New York: Broadway Books, 2005.

Lauren F. Friedman, "The Stranger-Than-Fiction Story Of A Woman Who Was Her Own Twin," Business Insider, February 2, 2014, http://www.businessinsider.com/lydia-fairchild-is-her-own-twin-2014-2.

Maxwell J. Mehlman, Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1970] 2003.

Surtsey

"Sutsey: Evolution of an Island," The Basement Geographer, May 28, 2012, http://basementgeographer.com/surtsey-evolution-of-an-island/.

Image: Surtsey during its eruption, 1963.

Church

Genetic Engineering and Society Center, "George Church on the Future of Human Genomics and Synthetic Biology," YouTube video, 28:24, September 19, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E0a5ZaE6Gk.

Kenneth Chang, "Beings Not Made for Space," The New York Times, January 27, 2014.

Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline, "Cyborgs and Space," Astronautics (September 1960), 26-27, 74-76.

Neal Stephenson, Seveneves. New York: William Morrow, 2015.

National Space Biomedical Research Institute, "The Body in Space," http://nsbri.org/the-body-in-space/.

Image: Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future. New York: Magnum, [1930] 1978.

Seth Shipman of Church Lab, interviewed by author. December 22, 2015.

Shara

Anthropologist Shara Bailey, interviewed by author. New York, November 5, 2015.

Telepath

Corrine Iozzio, "Scientists Prove That Telepathic Communication Is Within Reach," Smithsonian.com, October 2, 2014, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-prove-that-telepathic-communication-is-within-reach-180952868/?no-ist.

Cynthia Fox, "Communicating Via Thought Waves Alone: Q&A With Miguel Nicolelis," Bioscience Technology, July 31, 2015, http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2015/07/communicating-thought-waves-alone-q-miguel-nicolelis.

Ed Yong, "Will we ever communicate…telepathically?" BBC, April 5, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130404-will-we-ever-read-minds.

J.B. Rhine, Extra-Sensory Perception. Wellesley: Branden Books, [1934] 2014.

Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies. New York: Dell, 1997.

Upton Sinclair, Mental Radio: Studies In Consciousness. CreateSpace, [1929] 2008.

Images: Ibid.

Robert A. Heinlein, Methuselah's Children. New York: Gnome Press, 1958.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Telepathy," November 22, 2015, http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/telepathy.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "ESP," July 26, 2015, http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/esp.

Dreyfuss

David Gelertner, 1939: The Lost World of the Fair. New York: Free Press, 1995.

David Serlin, "The Other Arms Race." In The Disability Studies Reader: Second Edition, edited by Lennard J. Davis, 67-75. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Henry Dreyfuss, Designing for People. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.

Image: Ibid.

Smurf

A.R. Templeton, "The theory of speciation via the founder principle," Genetics 94 (1980), 1011-1038.

Cathy Trost, "The Blue People of Troublesome Creek," Science 82 (November 1982).

Sarah Knapton, "The astonishing village where little girls turn into boys aged 12," The Telegraph, September 20, 2015, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/the-astonishing-village-where-little-girls-turn-into-boys-aged-1/.

W.B. Provine, "Ernst Mayr: Genetics and speciation," Genetics 167 (2004), 1041-1046.

Guppy

Anthropologist Ryan Raaum, interviewed by author. New York, November 25, 2015.

Christie Wilcox, "Brain Size Study Involving Guppies Suggests High Intelligence Comes At High Cost," Huffington Post, January 4, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/brain-size-study-guppies-high-intelligence_n_2409161.html.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. New York: Vintage Books, [1886] 1989.

Kathleen McAuliffe, "If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?" Discover Magazine, January 20, 2011, http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-why-brain-shrinking.

Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future. London: Dover Books, [1930] 2008.

Great Chain

Erica Fudge, "How a Man Differs from a Dog," History Today (June 2003), 38-44.

Eustace M. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture. New York: Vintage, 1959.

Gabriel Egan, "Gaia and the Great Chain of Being," 2011, http://gabrielegan.com/publications/Egan2011a.htm.

Image: The Great Chain of Being, from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana, 1579.

Baby

Allan Sekula, "The Body and the Archive," October Vol. 29 (1986): 3-64.

Anthropologist Ryan Raaum, interviewed by author. New York, November 25, 2015.

David Serlin, "The Other Arms Race." In The Disability Studies Reader: Second Edition, edited by Lennard J. Davis, 67-75. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Lennard J. Davis, "The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category." In The Disability Studies Reader: Second Edition, edited by Lennard J. Davis, 231-242. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Francis Galton, "Generic Images." In Proceedings of the Royal Institution, vol. 9. 1879.

Image: Francis Galton. Criminal Composites. c. 1878. Plate XXVII from Karl Pearson, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, vol. 2, 1924.

Peter Ward, Future Evolution. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2001.

Quaddie

Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free. New York: Baen, 1988.

Seat

Charlotte Klonk, Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Ergonomist Manny Halpern, interviewed by author. New York, November 5, 2015.

Image: Herman Schlittgen, Kunst und Liebe. From Fliegende Blätter, vol. 83, no. 2085, 1885.

Industrial Designer Jonathan Olivares, interviewed by author. January 6, 2016.

Joel Sanders and Diana Fuss, "An Aesthetic Headache: Notes from the Museum Bench," June 12, 2015, http://joelsandersarchitect.com/an-aesthetic-headache-notes-from-the-museum-bench-with-diana-fuss/.