Evolving Ourselves Quotes

“if Darwin were alive today, he would likely revise a significant part of his great works, because the basic logic of evolution has shifted away from capital-n Nature toward two new core drivers: Unnatural selection* Nonrandom mutation*”
― Juan Enriquez, Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time

“No matter who you are, who your parents are, you have innate genome flaws, and we do not yet know enough about the vast majority of these potential flaws, and their true risks, to make really intelligent choices.”
― Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans, Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth

“twenty-three chromosomes lie 3.2 billion ATCGs. All of this code equals one human genome, which you could print out in a very boring 6.4-million-page book. A strand of DNA is so thin (two molecules across) that if all of the chromosomes in a single cell were stretched”
― Juan Enriquez, Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time