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Shapiro, Beth Alison.
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Biotechnology -- History.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Shapiro, Beth Alison.
Biotechnology -- History.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Life as we made it :
how
50
,000
years
of
human
innovation
refined--and
redefined--nature
/ Beth Shapiro.
by
Shapiro, Beth Alison.
Basic Books, 2021.
Call #:
576 S529L
Subjects
Biotechnology -- History.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Nature -- Effect of
human
beings on.
ISBN:
9781541644182 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How
50
,000
years
of
human
innovation
refined--and
redefined--nature
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
vii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to alter nature. But as evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues in 'Life as We Made It,' this phenomenon isn’t new. Humans have been reshaping the world around us for ages, from early dogs to modern bacteria modified to pump out insulin. Indeed, she claims, reshaping nature -- resetting the course of evolution, ours and others’ -- is the essence of what our species does. In exploring our evolutionary and cultural history, Shapiro finds a course for the future. If we have always been changing nature to help us survive and thrive, then we need to avoid naive arguments about
how
we might destroy it with our meddling, and instead ask
how
we can meddle better."
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