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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.

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Basic Books, 2021.

Biotechnology -- History.

Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Nature -- Effect of human beings on.

9781541644182 (hc.)

Alternate title:

How 50,000 years of human innovation refined--and redefined--nature

vii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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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