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Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time (2016. Auflage)

von Juan Enriquez (Autor)

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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, there's evidence that other species, from pasture-fed horses to lab animals to house cats, are also getting fatter. As reported by U.S. government agencies, the rate of autism rose by 131 percent from 2001 to 2010, an increase that cannot be attributed simply to increases in diagnosis rates. Three hundred years ago, almost no one with a serious nut allergy lived long enough to reproduce. Today, despite an environment in which food allergies have increased by 50 percent in just over a decade, 17 million Americans who suffer from food allergies survive, thrive, and pass their genes and behaviors on to the next generation. In the pre-Twinkie era, early humans had quite healthy mouths. As we began cooking, bathing, and using antibiotics, the bacteria in our bodies changed dramatically and became far less diverse. Today the consequences are evident not only in our teeth but throughout our bodies and minds.-- 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 by a fundamental redesign of our bodies. Future humans could become great caretakers of the planet, as well as a more diverse, more resilient, gentler, and more intelligent species--but only if we make the right choices now.--… (mehr)
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Titel:Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time
Autoren:Juan Enriquez (Autor)
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Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth von Juan Enriquez

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This is a really interesting review of genomic and evolutionary science that will shape the future of humanity. ( )
  THC-NYC | Jan 21, 2018 |
Is humanity now driving the evolutionary bus? Are we bypassing the slow, scenic route and speeding it down the expressway? Do we know where we're going? (Have I just overextended a metaphor?)

Seldom do I find a nonfiction book that I can't put down. This is one. It is a fascinating account of the complex interplay of things beyond genes that affect how species evolve. I highly recommend it.

Not that I don't have a gripe. It's probably petty, but "unnatural selection"? Really? Unnatural? It's not that the term is inaccurate...exactly. What the authors are emphasizing is that human actions rather than the unguided hand of natural selection is now directing how evolution proceeds. Got that, but the word "unnatural" has negative connotations, and the thrust of the book is that humanity guiding its own continued evolution isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it may be essential to our survival. Also, the word implies that what humans do, and perhaps even humans themselves, aren't natural. But it is and we are. We evolved through natural selection just like everything else, and human constructions are no less natural than termite mounds or beaver dams. All creatures affect their environment. We're just a bit more...blatant about it. The term Darwin used for selective breeding was "artificial selection", but I'm not crazy about that term either for pretty much the same reasons. How about something like "intentional selection" or even just "human selection"? Either of those, I think, would be a better choice.

Oh, and I caught one typo. It's on page 226. The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction was not "about 6 million years ago." It was about 65 million years ago. Somehow, the "5" got dropped in the edition I read (ISBN 978-1-61723-020-2).

Despite all that, this is still one of the best books I've read recently. It's informative, thought provoking, and even hopeful (with all due cautionary qualifications, of course). If you're interested in evolution or the future of humanity, this is a "must read". ( )
  DLMorrese | Oct 14, 2016 |
The well-credentialed authors of this highly footnoted, annotated, and indexed but imminently readable book make this remarkable statement: "We can design, build, and transfer whole genomes into humans within months.....transfer whole genomes into bacteria within months.... make new chromosomes within months. Millions of years' worth of evolution is being reformulated by humanity in just a few years."

What we cannot do is agree on the ethics involved. The acceptance of epigenetics as an evolutionary force is only slowly being accepted and regulations governing experimentation with humans prevent much research that would allow some of the concepts to become a reality.

I cannot recommend this book too highly! What a great bookclub selection it would make….probably have to carry discussion over to the next meeting.

One caveat: The authors are cofounders of Excel Venture Management, which builds start-ups in synthetic biology, big data, and new genetic technologies, necessitating a certain caution in acceptance of everything they've written, but not invalidating the concepts.
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  Jeannine504 | Jan 23, 2016 |
Yet while there’s no doubt that we’re changing the planet, the claim that we’re completely changing evolution on the planet does not follow. Let’s take those fish that are evolving to reproduce smaller and younger. This phenomenon has been documented in many species that we eat, but this is just a minuscule fraction of the 30,000 known species of fish.

When the authors examine our own species, the evidence is even less convincing.
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Despite these unknowns, the authors speak with unwarranted assurance about how our species is evolving in response to nearly everything. When they assert, for example, that the use of psychotropic drugs leaves “long-lasting genomic memories that increasingly determine who we are, how our retirement years might play out, how our future kids develop, and what we will become,” or that our ingestion of drugs and exposure to chemicals mean that “our children’s brains are evolving fast,” they are overplaying their hand and, more important, abusing the word “evolution.” Our children’s brains may be changing fast in response to the new pharmacological environment, but change alone is not evolution.
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The authors’ unconvincing thesis is not exactly helped by their many errors or misstatements about evolutionary theory and research.
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By focusing on biological evolution — the change in genetic composition of a population over generations — “Evolving Ourselves” has missed what is truly remarkable about our species. Because we have extraordinary abilities to both learn and transmit information to other humans, we have the capacity to evolve culturally unlike any other. This doesn’t involve genetic change.
 

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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, there's evidence that other species, from pasture-fed horses to lab animals to house cats, are also getting fatter. As reported by U.S. government agencies, the rate of autism rose by 131 percent from 2001 to 2010, an increase that cannot be attributed simply to increases in diagnosis rates. Three hundred years ago, almost no one with a serious nut allergy lived long enough to reproduce. Today, despite an environment in which food allergies have increased by 50 percent in just over a decade, 17 million Americans who suffer from food allergies survive, thrive, and pass their genes and behaviors on to the next generation. In the pre-Twinkie era, early humans had quite healthy mouths. As we began cooking, bathing, and using antibiotics, the bacteria in our bodies changed dramatically and became far less diverse. Today the consequences are evident not only in our teeth but throughout our bodies and minds.-- 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 by a fundamental redesign of our bodies. Future humans could become great caretakers of the planet, as well as a more diverse, more resilient, gentler, and more intelligent species--but only if we make the right choices now.--

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