This is the memory palace. I'm Nate de Mayo. James G. Wilson was in alone. His

Seminal publication, 1959 Six Principles of Territology, was directly inspired by

the French zoologist Camille de Resse, five principles of experimental

territology. From his 1877 book Research on the Artificial Production of Monstrosities,

a title which did not sound as bad at the time. Both men in their own times

through the methods of their own times. The language of their own times were

asking the same question. Why were the bodies of some babies drastically

different from the bodies of nearly all others? It is a question that has been

asked in every language in every time. The word monster itself is born from this

question derived as it is from the Latin monstrarie, meaning to show or to

demonstrate. Because the birth of an anomalous child was seen in ancient Rome and

in Greece and in Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and elsewhere, as a sign. In determining

just what that sign was meant to show, which cart phenomenon which looming event,

divining how a two-headed boy in Venice or a baby girl born in Verona with a

full set of teeth might hold some sway upon the rain, say, was the subject of

hidden inquiry among the James G. Wilson's and Camille du Resse, so of those days.

There are depictions of these children on the walls of ancient teams and

temples in the Middle East and Mesoamerica. And carvings and paintings found in

Asia and Oceania, they manifest as villains and myths and stories era after

era. Scholars have traced a congenital condition called holoprosin

cephaly that disrupts the development of symmetrical opcipital lobes to the

cyclops of the Odyssey. They have seen mermaids and fetuses born with another

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