Will Directed Evolution Destroy Humanity, and If So, What Can We Do About It?

Authors

Maxwell J. Mehlman, Case Western University School of LawFollow

Abstract

In contemplating the technologies emerging from the Human Genome Project, nothing scares people more than the prospect that we will attempt to use genetic engineering to control the human evolutionary process.

Keywords

Human Genome Project, genetic engineering

Publication Date

2009

Document Type

Article

Publication Information

3 Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 93 (2009)

Comments

Reprinted with permission of the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy © 2009

Repository Citation

Mehlman, Maxwell J., "Will Directed Evolution Destroy Humanity, and If So, What Can We Do About It?" (2009). Faculty Publications. 983.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/983