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The premed pillow talk of “Biological”—“Some skin, billions of genes again it’s you. / XX, XY that’s why it’s you and me”—became a launching...
Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker went head to head last night in a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum discussion, debating the ethics of designer genes, free-market eugenics and hyper-parenting.
Pinker also said that most genes have multiple effects, which makes it very difficult for humans to predict exact effects of tampering with a baby’s genes.
In response to a question about where to draw the line between improvements in human health and designer genes, Sandel brought up the example of a man that tried to create a super-race by soliciting sperm from winners of the Nobel prize before the creation of Viagra.
Hauser studies the human mind—its evolution, its processes, its judgments, its nuances—with the eyes and tools of a scientist. It is an integrative approach to an age-old question. If we share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees, thinkers have long wondered, what...