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According to the film, "The Allegory of X-Men", Stan Lee created this new team at around the same time as the youth protests were being led. The X-Men were a reflection of those fighting for civil rights - they represented people fighting to fit in and be normal in a world where no one wants them.

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The X-Men heroes are born with their powers, which occur due to a mutation in their dna that allowed them to obtain such abilities. This is a prime example of how important and sensitive the study of genetics is. Wolverine is able to regenerate at an alarmingly  rapid rate, Professor-X can read minds, and magneto controls anything magnetic, all due to a mutation of a DNA sequence which then allowed for a new type of protein to produce.

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"... the creation of an entire new species would require a name of incalculable power."

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"And we can, on occasion, deliberately alter some of these genes to change their functions, thereby resulting in altered human states, altered physiologies, and changed beings."

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"The foundation of so many of those stories is 'we're different but we want to just fit in like everyone else".

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Movie clip showing how Wolverines mutation allowed him to survive such an excrutiating procedure.

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Beast lecturing about mutant DNA in his harvard class

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picture taken of the characters from the movie "Days of Future Past"