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Harvey Fineberg Are we ready for neo-evolution

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Harvey Fineberg Are we ready for neo-evolution

Posted by TwitC on 04/28/2011

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TED Talks Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it?

TED, Talks, Science, Technology, evolution, medicine, philosophy

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