bones of contention

Speaking of hybrid forms: Shen Shaomin (whose Chinese website seems to have disappeared) has fabricated his own “natural” world of rather unnatural creatures which tug at our desire to see them as actual wondrous remnants of the past. Their mock prehistoric presentation using actual ossified bones and bone meal is at odds with what looks like an evolution that should never have happened – one that actually never did happen. It brings us around again to genetic modifications.

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