re: #2 b_sharp

I’d like to see it.

Well, I’m not an expert by any means on genetics. I know what I know by reading everything from blogs to journal papers, which makes me well-read, but still hardly an expert.

There is a cross-over with evolution politics, as genetics has shown more clearly than ever that old belief systems are just wrong.

Racism is clearly not going away any time soon; fascinating thing about genetics is that it cuts both ways - while demolishing old fashioned views of race, new ones get created.

“Eugenics” is a scare word, used mostly by the creationist religious right, but some leftists are using it now too to fight against genetic engineering or even genetic testing.

I have no doubt, none at all, that though selective breeding and genetic engineering (a.k.a. “editing”) we could change (note I wrote “change”, not “improve”) the population of H. sapiens into something different than what we are today.

And that possibility scares people.