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We're already modifying genes just fine; what makes you think it would take millions of years? Maybe a few hundred.
by kulahan 3y ago
We're already modifying genes just fine; what makes you think it would take millions of years? Maybe a few hundred.
- JohnMakin 3y agoNatural selection is a far different process than humans selectively editing genes. Even if we gained a perfect understanding of every species on earth (we haven't even come close to finding them all) and were somehow able to scale this to impact the entire planet's genome, the idea that humans are somehow going to be able to select traits better and orders of magnitude faster than nature is the absolute height of arrogance and this comment is a good example of the exact reason we are screwed.