Genetic technologies contain extraordinary promise - and breathtaking challenges - with the potential to change virtually every aspect of our lives. Juan Enriquez, co-author Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity - One Gene at a Time So the key emerging debate is: Should we redesign humans? Why? How far? How fast? Metzl lays out what we can do now, what we might be able to do, in an engaging, nontechnical way. This gives us the power to alter all species, including ourselves. We are driving unnatural selection and nonrandom mutation. Michael Morell, Former Acting and Deputy Director, CIAĮvolution has changed since Darwin's time. I could not put it down, reading it in a single sitting.
Brilliantly written and deeply thought provoking, it is a must read - for the entire planet. Hacking Darwin paints a picture of our future that is both exciting and hopeful as well as dangerous and terrifying. Metzl writes with great clarity and a sense of urgency that we should all take to heart.
Hacking Darwin.paints a picture that is at once wondrous and terrifying. When we can engineer our future children, massively extend our lifespans, build life from scratch, and recreate the plant and animal world, should we? Look towards a future where our deepest beliefs, morals, religions, and politics are challenged like never before and the very essence of what it means to be human is at play. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code, the choices we make today will be the difference between realizing breathtaking advances in human well-being and descending into a dangerous and potentially deadly genetic arms race.Įnter the laboratories where scientists are turning science fiction into reality. Passionate, provocative, and highly illuminating, Hacking Darwin is the must read book about the future of our species for fans of Homo Deus and The Gene.Īfter 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules.įrom leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives - sex, war, love, and death.Īt the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril.
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