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These scientists and their colleagues now hold what Rogers calls the "reins of evolution." Absorbed in their laboratory work, many lack the perspective to understand, or often even notice the choices that lie ahead. As Rogers notes in an otherwise short-sighted book, there is one significant exception. Robert Sinsheimer...
the potential broader social or ethical implications of initiating this line of research--of its role, as a possible prelude to longer-range, broader-scale genetic engineering of the fauna and flora of the planet including ultimately, man...Shall we take into our hands our own future evolution?
Everyone here comes up with their own ways of dealing with the chaos. One senior in Dunster House said yesterday she tears pages out of the course catalogue and throws them down the stairs, looking only at those that land on alternate steps. A Lowell House junior said he simply...
The author takes his argument where others, such as David Riesman '31, Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, left off in the 1950s. Maccoby's Gamesman is a further evolution of Riesman's corporate man, a tough, manipulative manager of people and industrial systems rather than an entrepreneur...
Contrary to the impression left by the brief paragraph mentioning our views in your cover story on sociobiology [Aug. 1], we believe that the moral teachings found in the world's religions are historically developed cultural products, opposing the selfish tendencies which biological evolution builds into human nature and...