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6150376

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8416
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-1-17
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0140-6736
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1380-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:otherAbstract
KIE: The author contends that, while understanding the role of DNA in human evolution and development is an exciting challenge for biology, it is not likely to lead to direct methods of increasing human perfectibility. The interaction of DNA with its immediate cellular environment as well as with the broader social environment is crucial and infinitely complex. Rose discusses how developmental and evolutionary biology both tend to ignore the active part an organism plays in changing its environment. The human genome makes possible the brain and the social and tool-using abilities which enable people to "transcend the limits apparently set by that very genome." Accordingly, techniques such as in vitro fertilization, gene therapy, and sperm banks will have a marginal effect on human evolution since DNA is subject to an almost infinitely varying set of environments.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
DNA in medicine. Human perfectibility.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article