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What Dune reveals about reproductive control and eugenics

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New adaptation offers opportunity to revisit biology overlooked in Herbert’s classic tale

Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, chats with Gaius Helen Mohiam, played by Charlotte Rampling, a reverend mother of Bene Gesserit in director Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune. Credit: TCD, Prod.DB, Alamy © Warner Brothers Studios

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New adaptation offers opportunity to revisit biology overlooked in Herbert’s classic tale

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Andrew J. Mongue is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh and a longtime fan of speculative fiction. He studies the diversity of reproductive strategies across the tree of life and is passionate about the promotion of scientific thought outside of immediate research contexts.

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Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna exploring the evolution of reproductive systems. They are committed to remedying historical biases in biology and are happy to find connections between their research, queer theory and speculative fiction.

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