ectogenesis

There was a lot, thought Lazarus, to be said for ectogenesis.

Ectogenesis - variation in plants due to conditions out side of the plants.

The looked-for future is one of ectogenesis and complete isolation from birth."

But ectogenesis isn't new-it's been in use for millions of years."

Of course a man could do the same, obtain an egg, grow it by ectogenesis, raise it himself.

Dr. Delmarre himself was planning a future in which ectogenesis would be possible and marriage unnecessary.

Ectogenesis of human embryos and fetuses would require an artificial uterus.

"We could practice ectogenesis," Mordan answered imperturbably, "if we wished.

What is egg-laying but ectogenesis?

"Take Ectogenesis.

Speculative fiction in technology of reproduction may involve cloning and ectogenesis, i.e., artificial reproduction).

It was not the loose morals of the Century, not ectogenesis, not matriarchy, that disturbed Eternity.

Ectogenesis was practised by our predecessors, but was abandoned by our own species, because, with greatly improved motherhood, there is no need for it.

Male self-determination, independence, & freedom, become an inalienable right of all males, because of male self-preservation &/or self-procreation, through the use of Ectogenesis.

You remember that human ectogenesis was just beginning to be worked about then; test-tube babies aren't yet practical for large-scale production by a long shot, but we'll get there some day.

Haldane's discourse in Daedalus on ectogenesis was an influence on Huxley's Brave New World (1932) which features a eugenic society.

Ball argues that most of the technologies he discusses, from cloning to ectogenesis (growing embryos in an artificial womb), are primarily directed at overcoming infertility and/or at treating various (mainly genetic) disorders.

Nowadays, of course, with ectogenesis becoming more common -though I hope it shall never be as common as it is on Solaria -I would be eliminated in the late fetal stage."

The book was regarded as shocking science fiction at the time, being the first book about ectogenesis (the development of foetuses in artificial wombs) - "test tube babies", brought to life without sexual intercourse or pregnancy.

Ectogenesis would then become a forefront by which all adult males establish full custody of male children, thus becoming autonomous from female (matriarchal) involvement & influence, relevant to the procreation & parenting of male children.

Imagine a group of humans, long resident in an unchanged part of Terra, devout churchgoers, for whom the price of progress was that they destroy every relic of the past, embrace atheism, and become homosexuals who reproduce by ectogenesis.

The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia ..." And round her waist she wore a silver-mounted green morocco-surrogate cartridge belt, bulging (for Lenina was not a freemartin) with the regulation supply of contraceptives.

The book is an early vision of transhumanism and his vision of a future in which humans controlled their own evolution through directed mutation and use of in vitro fertilization ("ectogenesis") was a major influence on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.