To me, the amazing thing is not the technology. My belief is that this technology will become common for a number of reasons including that much of what we call Human Progress is the removal of natural selection. To survive, we will have to replace the natural selection that we have removed and pre-implantation artificial selection offers potentials that natural selection cannot. Natural selection cannot select for "good" genes, only against "bad" genes. It is incredibly inefficient and brutal. No, the amazing thing about this video is the date, the number of views, and the comments... This man is talking about husbanding the greatest wealth in human existence and the only chance for long term human survival... yet in over 4 years it has only been viewed less than 700 times. That could be shocking but I guess it just illustrates how people think. For decades I've examined the need for and the potentials of pre-implantation artificial selection from an ecological perspective. It's quite different than Dr. Wells' view but you might find it interesting because it not only describes why what he is doing will be necessary to human survival, but also it illustrates the weakness of natural selection, the genetic strategy given to us by nature. That principle even extends to show the problem of other strategies nature has given us. I wrote a book about it called Genetics For A New Human Ecology. If you are interested, the genetic part is a CZcams video at czcams.com/video/wjVieFKevMk/video.html (Dr. Wells' work is mentioned at 16:00). The video is a bit older. The more updated book is at www.amazon.com/dp/1544900996
To me, the amazing thing is not the technology. My belief is that this technology will become common for a number of reasons including that much of what we call Human Progress is the removal of natural selection. To survive, we will have to replace the natural selection that we have removed and pre-implantation artificial selection offers potentials that natural selection cannot. Natural selection cannot select for "good" genes, only against "bad" genes. It is incredibly inefficient and brutal. No, the amazing thing about this video is the date, the number of views, and the comments... This man is talking about husbanding the greatest wealth in human existence and the only chance for long term human survival... yet in over 4 years it has only been viewed less than 700 times. That could be shocking but I guess it just illustrates how people think.
For decades I've examined the need for and the potentials of pre-implantation artificial selection from an ecological perspective. It's quite different than Dr. Wells' view but you might find it interesting because it not only describes why what he is doing will be necessary to human survival, but also it illustrates the weakness of natural selection, the genetic strategy given to us by nature. That principle even extends to show the problem of other strategies nature has given us. I wrote a book about it called Genetics For A New Human Ecology. If you are interested, the genetic part is a CZcams video at czcams.com/video/wjVieFKevMk/video.html (Dr. Wells' work is mentioned at 16:00). The video is a bit older. The more updated book is at www.amazon.com/dp/1544900996