In the continuing media furore over ‘designer infants’ and the race to finish the map of human DNA – to put it simply, to determine the specific genes that make us who we are – researchers and analysts seldom utilize the word that explains this brand-new ethical and technical minefield: ‘eugenics’.
Since the horrendous experiments of Nazi death camps the word has actually laboured under an ominous track record, yet those perverted and racially inspired abominations must not blind us to what eugenics truly is: using science for the qualitative and quantitative enhancement of our hereditary constitution.
David Galton’s wonderfully clear-headed, practical and available study of the history, principles and capacity of this much-maligned branch of science makes interesting reading. From Ancient Greece to Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler and the Human Genome Project, EUGENICS is a dazzling account of our battle to alter the method we are, and where that battle may take us in the future.
http://allcnaprograms.com/eugenics-the-future-of-human-life-in-the-21st-century/
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