Remaking Eden
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Book Description
In this brilliant, provocative, and necessary book, Lee M. Silver takes a cautiously optimistic look at the scientific advances that will allow us to engineer life in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago--indeed, in ways that go far beyond cloning. Could a child have two genetic mothers? Will parents someday soon be able to choose not only the physical characteristics of their children-to-be, but their personalities and talents as well? Will genetic enhancement ultimately lead to the dominance of a "genetic elite?" In clear, engaging, and accessible prose, Silver demystifies the science behind these and other thrinlling and frightening new possibilities, in a book that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the hopes and dilemmas of the American family in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Lee M. Silver is professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is author of the critically acclaimed Remaking Eden and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek International. Silver has been elected a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he received a prestigious MERIT Award for outstanding research in genetics from the National Institutes of Health. Silver holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University and lives with his family in New Jersey and New York.
Remaking Eden,Lee M. Silver,Harper Perennial,0380792435,Cloning,Genetic engineering,Human reproductive technology,Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / Genetics
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