Evolving ourselves how unnatural selection and nonrandom mutation are changing life on earth
In Evolving Ourselves, futurist Juan Enriquez and scientist Steve Gullans conduct a sweeping tour of how humans are changing the course of evolution--sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. For example: Globally, rates of obesity in humans nearly doubled between 1980 and 2014. What's more, ther...
| Main Authors: | Enriquez, Juan, 1959- (Author), Gullans, Steve (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Current : Published by the Penguin Group,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- What would Darwin write today?
- Symptoms of Real-Time Evolution. Is autism a harbinger of our changing brains? ; The DarWa theory revisited... and a glimpse at a new theory ; Twenty generations to domesticate humans ; Violence and the lack thereof ; Allergies : another harbinger of our evolving bodies? ; Our unnatural "all natural" world ; Fat humans, fat animals : another symptom? ; Brave new sex
- How Does Evolution Really Work Now? The nature versus nurture wars ; Missing heredity, mysterious toxins ; Transgenerational inheritance - aka "voodoo biology" ; WWIV : nuking our microbes ; The "yucky" stuff inside you ; Autism revisited : three potential drivers ; Viruses : the roadrunners of evolution ; A perfectly modern pregnancy ; Bringing it all together : DESTINY is propelling evolution
- A World of Nonrandom Mutation. Playing with the building blocks of life ; Humans hijacking viruses ; Editing life on a grand scale ; Unnatural acts, designer babies, and Sex 2.0 ; Boyden brains
- Evolving Ourselves... Better living through chemistry? ; Forever young, beautiful, and fearless? ; Unnatural attraction ; Sports quandaries and beyond... ; Designer organs and cloned humans ; Evolving brains revisited ; The robot-computer-human interface ; Perhaps an ethical question or two? ; Technically life, technically death ; Trust whom?
- The Future of Life. I don't remember you... de-extinction ; Humanity's really short story ; Evolving hominins... ; Synthetic life ; Humans and hubris : does nature win in the end? ; Leaving earth?
- Epilogue. New evolutionary trees
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix. Darwin - true or false : did he get it right?.