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EVOLVING OURSELVES

Steve Gullans Juan Enriquez

How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth

EVOLVING OURSELVES is an investigation into how human action has had unexpected consequences for the evolution of our species—such as the rising incidence of chronic conditions like asthma, allergies, and obesity—and what humans might become in the next hundred years. This is cutting edge science and exciting predictions about the future, presented accessibly with style and humor.

Juan Enriquez is a bestselling author and Managing Director and co-founder, with Steve Gullans, of Excel Venture Management, LLC, a life sciences research and investment firm. He was the founding director of Harvard Business School’s Life Science Project and a fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs, and he is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. A dynamic and popular speaker, known not only for his mind-bending reports from the front of research but for his sly and sparkling humor, he has been invited to speak at TED conferences five times, and his talk “The Next Species of Human” has been watched by over 2,100,000 viewers.

Steve Gullans was a professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 18 years, applying breakthrough technologies to the understanding of diseases such as cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has published more than 130 scientific papers in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the co-founder with Juan Enriquez of Excel Venture Management and Managing Director, working with entrepreneurs to develop new technologies for medicine, energy, agriculture, and social networking. He has spoken at TED and TEDMED conferences.

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Book Published 2015-03-10 by Current
Book Published 2015-03-10 by Current

Comments

This book will be a long-lived classic; it is what Darwin would write if he were alive today. Few yet comprehend the awe-inspiring nature of synthetic biology and its implications for life on the planet going forward; by providing a simple, no-nonsense, humorous, and somewhat scary framework, Enriquez and Gullans allow all of us to understand the changes we live with every day as we guide, and decide, our own evolution.

This book provokes terror and inspiration in equal measure. Terror because humankind has become a potent evolutionary force affecting all life on the planet, including itself. Inspiration because with awareness comes the capacity to direct humanity’s — and the planet’s— evolutionary trajectory. Read this book and you will never think the same way about evolution ever again.

Thoughtful and thought-provoking, Evolving Ourselves is rich in the fascinating details of how we work, how we got there, and how we are changing. Enriquez and Gullans take us down a path of observations and logic that leads to either your grandest hopes or darkest nightmares. Fasten your seat-belts, this rocket is about to take off.

In a rapidly changing world, considerations of human evolution are rarely taken into account as a critical factor that shapes the immediate future. but Enriquez and Gullans will convince you otherwise. They will make you rethink what constitutes a victory (antibiotics! air travel!) over our natural biological constraints and its unintended consequences.

How big dare we dream? This intriguing, optimistic, and exhilarating book takes us into the labora tories of today’s highly innovative molecular biology to explore the possible futures of humankind. If he were alive today, Darwin would be delighted and astonished by the way his ideas have inspired such creative modern research.

A provocative and sobering vision of the evolutionary forces at work in our modern, post-Darwin world, and the control that humans exert over our genetic destinies. Essential reading for anyone who retains hope that humanity, through shear application of ingenuity, will persevere, survive, and surmount the inestimable challenges that lie ahead.

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans convincingly argue that Darwin’s driving force of natural selection no longer holds true in a world where little remains natural and free of the hand of man. Their book raises important questions that we all should consider deeply as individuals, as nations, and as a global community as we venture forth into this next phase of evolution.

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans brilliantly describe a future of extreme possibility and extreme responsibility. Thinking deeply about the implications of their work improves our chances of creating a desirable version of that future.

A refreshingly human-centered take on the future of nature, Evolving Ourselves shows how natural selection has become a participatory team sport. That’s right: Evolution itself is evolving, human beings are the cause, and we all better wake up and do this more consciously before we domesticate ourselves into extinction.

For anyone with an interest in understanding the complexity that defines us as human beings, there is plenty to absorb in the cleverly woven pages of Evolving Ourselves. Written in an engaging and often entertaining style, the book pinpoints the unique situation in which Homo sapiens find themselves: deciding what we become next.

We are going from evolution by natural selection to evolution by human design. The game has changed, and this book provides the new rules of engagement.

UK: Oneworld Publications, Chinese (simplified): Cheers

If you think that human evolution occurred only in the past, think again! Evolving Ourselves is a scintillating, witty, and sometimes scary account of how rapidly changing technologies are altering human evolution in consequential ways. The book boldly predicts our species’ evolutionary future.

Enriquez and Gullans take off all the blinders and explore the myriad, astounding ways we humans are rapidly influencing and shaping, both intentionally and not, our future selves. With mounting knowledge around what makes our species tick, they describe how we'll have the power to direct our evolutionary path.

How far should we go in our ability to control every aspect of the world we live in, including our own bodies? Evolving Ourselves is a fascinating investigation of the global questions and microscopic details that will decide the fate of the human race.

Timely and exceptionally rich, this book is guaranteed to stimulate reflection on what the new biology means for our species.