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Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth

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Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth - Enriquez, Juan, and Gullans, Steve
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Though these harbingers of change are deeply unsettling, the authors argue that we are also in an epoch of tremendous opportunity. New advances in biotechnology help us mitigate the cruel forces of natural selection, from saving prematurely born babies to gene therapies for sickle cell anemia and other conditions. As technology enables us to take control of our genes, we will be able to alter our own species and many others--a good thing, given that our eventual survival will require space travel and colonization, enabled ...

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Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth 2015, Portfolio, New York

ISBN-13: 9781617230202

Hardcover