The two were the result of an experiment in genetic recombination in which two parent cells were separated into complementary haploid gametes and recombined into two embryos.
Because they had no knowledge of independent living or any education, Lazarus teaches them "how to be human" during the voyage. Lazarus tells of his visit as an interplanetary cargo trader to a planet, where he bought a pair of slaves, brother and sister, and immediately manumitted them. Shortly after telling the story Lazarus mistakenly calls David "Donald", which is intended to make the reader think that the story is a roman à clef and actually refers to Lazarus himself. This story concerns a 20th-century United States Navy seaman, midshipman, and officer, David Lamb, who receives multiple promotions while minimizing any semblance of real work or combat by applying himself enthusiastically to the principle of "constructive laziness".
"The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail" In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no longer worth living, but, in what is described as a reverse Arabian Nights scenario, agrees not to end his life for as long as his companion, chief executive of the Howard Families and descendant Ira Weatheral, will listen to his stories. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative.
The result of more a mutation than the breeding experiment, he is the oldest living human, at more than two thousand years old. The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long (born Woodrow Wilson Smith), an early beneficiary of a breeding experiment designed to increase mankind's natural lifespan, known as the Howard Families, after the program's initiator.
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