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In science fiction, biological uplift is a common but by no means universal term for the act of an advanced civilization helping the development of another species by bringing a non-sapient one into sentience, or by giving a sapient one spacefaring capabilities. The best-known use of the term is in David Brin's Uplift series, which may have popularized it. Orion's Arm uses the term provolve to avoid possible copyright issues with David Brin. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction writer David Brin. ...
Orions Arm (or OA for short) is an online science fiction world-building project, founded by M. Alan Kazlev. ...
Uplifting also refers to the theoretical prospect of endowing non-human animals with greater capacities, including and especially increased intelligence. It is highly likely that biological uplifting would be accomplished through the application of genetic and transgenic technologies, and possibly even artificial intelligence. This includes, but is not limited to, various forms of artificial selection and genetic engineering. For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to genetics. ...
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The concept can be traced to H. G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, in which the eponymous scientist transforms animals into horrifying parodies of men through surgery and psychological torment. The resulting animal-people obsessively recite the Law, a series of prohibitions against reversion to animal behaviors, with the haunting refrain of "Are we not men?" Wells' novel reflects Victorian concerns about vivisection and of the power of unrestrained scientific experimentation to do terrible harm. These ideas were discussed in more detail by Olaf Stapledon in his 1944 novel Sirius. Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...
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Etymologically, vivisection refers to the dissection of, or any cutting or surgery upon, a living animal. ...
William Olaf Stapledon (May 10, 1886 – September 6, 1950) was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction. ...
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Sirius is a 1944 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. ...
Another well-known early literary example of the concept of biological uplift can be found in the underpeople of Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind series. In Smith's universe, the underpeople were created from animals through unexplained technological means explicitly to be servants of humanity, and are often treated as less than slaves by the society that uses them. However, Smith's characterizations of individual underpeople are frequently quite sympathetic, and one of his most memorable characters is C'Mel, the cat-woman who appears in The Ballad of Lost C'Mel and Norstrilia. Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer Smith – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works. ...
In the fictional works of Cordwainer Smith, the Instrumentality of Mankind is the central government of the human race. ...
Norstrilia is the only novel published by Paul Linebarger under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith. ...
David Brin has stated that his Uplift universe was written at least in part in response to the common assumption in earlier science fiction such as Cordwainer Smith's work and Planet of the Apes that uplifted animals would, or even should, be treated as possessions rather than people[1]. As a result, a significant part of the conflict in the series revolves around the differing policies of Galactics and humans toward their client races. While Galactic races traditionally hold their uplifted "clients" in millennia-long indentures, during which the "patrons" have extensive rights and claims over clients' lives and labor power, humans have given their uplifted dolphins and chimpanzees near-equal civil rights, with a few legal and economic disabilities related to their unfinished state. The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction writer David Brin. ...
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Type species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 distribution of Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species in the genus Pan. ...
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In contrast, the Moreau series by S. Andrew Swann has humanity creating uplifted animals—named "moreaus" after the H. G. Wells novel—for the purpose of fighting in a series of wars. After the wars end, the leftover moreaus have difficulty assimilating into a human civilization where they are feared, suffer limited civil-rights and are objects of racist oppression. Nohar Rajasthan is the private investigator from the Moreau series of books by S. Andrew Swann (aka Steven Swiniarski) published by DAW Books. ...
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Cultural assimilation (often called merely assimilation) is an intense process of consistent integration whereby members of an ethno-cultural group, typically immigrants, or other minority groups, are absorbed into an established, generally larger community. ...
In addition, Will Shetterly's Chimera novel is set in a future where human-animal hybrids are created as slaves. Will Shetterly (born 1955) is a fantasy and comic book writer whose best-known novel is Dogland (1997). ...
Cultural uplift is distinguished from biological uplift in that it does not physically alter the organism. A real cultural uplift experiment started with bonobos in 2005 in Great Ape Trust in Iowa, USA. Binomial name Pan paniscus Schwarz, 1929 Bonobo distribution The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan. ...
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In science fiction, to bootstrap a culture is to give it technology until that culture is technologically equal or close to equal to ones own culture. ...
References - Chimps in 'Big Brother house' will learn how to be human, Telegraph
- Watching apes play Big Brother to learn more about ourselves, Sydney Morning Herald
- Apes May Help Determine Human Nature, RedOrbit News
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