Post 7b – A New Human Species?

Thanks to new genomics technologies, scientists have not only been able to read organisms' genomes faster than ever before, they can also write increasingly complex changes into those genomes, creating organisms with new capabilities.  Juan Enriquez, managing director of Excel Venture Management, states that the ability to write the code of life will profoundly change the world as we know it.  We can literally engineer our environment and ourselves.  Humanity is moving beyond the perceived constrains of Darwinian evolution. The result, he says, may be an entirely new species.  Let the ethical debates commence…

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38932/?p1=MstVwd

Below is a thought provoking video in which Juan Enrigquez talks about the evolution of the human species.  

Rick S.