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8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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What Is This Going to Do to Heredity?

i think that we are a terrible society at treating people equally right now. I suspect people will react to very vicerilly, i agree. Part of the problem here is that we think of jeans as being the sort of absolute definition of who we are. We also think about heredity in the sense that these kids will then pass down these traits to their kids and so on. And you can see this with scientists who developed crisper actually have had international meetings to figure out what should happen next.

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