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  title info:
    title: Evolving ourselves
    sub title: how unnatural selection and nonrandom mutation are changing life on earth
  title info:
    title: How unnatural selection and nonrandom mutation are changing life on earth
  name:
    name part: Enriquez, Juan
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gullans, Steve
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 371 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: In Evolving Ourselves, futurist Juan Enriquez and scientist Steve Gullans conduct a sweeping tour of how humans are changing the course of evolution--sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. For example: Globally, rates of obesity in humans nearly doubled between 1980 and 2014. What's more, there's evidence that other species, from pasture-fed horses to lab animals to house cats, are also getting fatter. As reported by U.S. government agencies, the rate of autism rose by 131 percent from 2001 to 2010, an increase that cannot be attributed simply to increases in diagnosis rates. Three hundred years ago, almost no one with a serious nut allergy lived long enough to reproduce. Today, despite an environment in which food allergies have increased by 50 percent in just over a decade, 17 million Americans who suffer from food allergies survive, thrive, and pass their genes and behaviors on to the next generation. In the pre-Twinkie era, early humans had quite healthy mouths. As we began cooking, bathing, and using antibiotics, the bacteria in our bodies changed dramatically and became far less diverse. Today the consequences are evident not only in our teeth but throughout our bodies and minds.
  abstract: Though these harbingers of change are deeply unsettling, the authors argue that we are also in an epoch of tremendous opportunity. New advances in biotechnology help us mitigate the cruel forces of natural selection, from saving prematurely born babies to gene therapies for sickle cell anemia and other conditions. As technology enables us to take control of our genes, we will be able to alter our own species and many others--a good thing, given that our eventual survival will require space travel and colonization, enabled by a fundamental redesign of our bodies. Future humans could become great caretakers of the planet, as well as a more diverse, more resilient, gentler, and more intelligent species--but only if we make the right choices now.
  table of contents: What would Darwin write today? -- Symptoms of real-time evolution -- How does evolution really work now? -- A world of nonrandom mutation -- Evolving ourselves... -- The future of life -- Epilogue.
  note: Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans.
  note: Includes bibliographic notes (pages 285-352) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Natural selection
  classification: GN281 .E57 2015
  classification: 599.938
  identifier: 1617230200
  identifier: 9781617230202
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 140627
    record change date: 20150402125837.0
    record identifier: in00003521276
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng