The Anthropology of Hybrids in Alien: Earth

Alien: Earth imagines a future where corporations outrun nations and treat life as inventory. At its center are “hybrids” like Wendy—children’s minds transferred into synthetic adult bodies. In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast, I examine what Wendy and her cohort reveal about human development as a biocultural process: how bodies and selves grow together over time, why childhood and adolescence can’t be engineered or skipped, and how treating memory, identity, and attachment as uploadable “assets” turns progress into arrested becoming.

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