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Leaders in both Washington and Beijing now see AI as a revolutionary technology that could surpass digital computing—and its offspring, the internet—in its potential for disruption.

He argued he was simply in favour of choice, that it would be equally permissible to favour homosexual offspring and that it was simply natural to want grandchildren.

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Orangutans are second only to humans in how long they care for their offspring after birth.

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In February, researchers collared a female mountain lion in Orange County that had offspring at the time, Kennedy said.

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As Ms. Barnéoud writes, DNA normally travels only from parent to offspring, but microchimeric cells “are climbing up the family tree, traveling back in time.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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