Sentences with phrase «bad genes in humans»

Genes that produce both positive and negative effects are expressed during these active periods, and through this study, some of the good and bad genes in humans are beginning to be parsed out.

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What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).
It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.
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