TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldi,Pierre
TI  - The shattered self: the end of natural evolution 
SN  - 0262025027 (hc. : alk. paper)
AV  - QH442 .B355 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Human Genome Project
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Genetic engineering
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1 -- Introduction 1 -- 2 -- Science Today 7 -- The Decentering Process 9 -- The Psychology of Large Numbers 12 -- 3 -- Molecular Biology 15 -- DNA 16 -- Proteins 16 -- Genomes 17 -- The Stadium-Size Cell 22 -- Evolution 24 -- Genome Sequencing 25 -- Beyond Genome Sequencing 28 -- Biotechnology 31 -- Genomes as Computer Programs 34 -- 4 -- In Vitro Babies 37 -- In Vitro Babies 37 -- What Happens to Sex? 41 -- 5 -- Human Cloning 49 -- Cloning 49 -- Human Cloning Taboo 53 -- Cloning and Sexual Reproduction 55 -- Cloning and "Intelligence" 56 -- Cloning and Life and Death 61 -- Cloning and Identity 66 -- 6 -- Siamese Twins 71 -- 7 -- Manipulating DNA 79 -- The Extended Jurassic Park 79 -- DNA Morphing 85 -- Warping and Reversing Time 88 -- 8 -- Computers 91 -- Computations: Moore's Law 91 -- Communications: The Internet 94 -- Artificial Life 100 -- 9 -- The Last Frontier: The Brain 103 -- Why Is Pain Painful? 104 -- The Limits and Expansion of Intelligence 107 -- Sizing the Self Up 115 -- Immortality Revisited 119 -- The Distance between Selves-The "Organic" Approach 123 -- Machine Learning and Reverse-Engineering the Brain-The -- "Artificial" Approach 126 -- The New Music 130 -- 10 -- Ethics and What Can Go Wrong 135 -- Ethical Foundations 135 -- Contemporary Issues: Cloning, Embryonic Cells, and Gene Therapy 143 -- What Can Go Wrong 154 -- 11 -- The Information Space 161 -- Biology.com 161 -- The Information Space 166
ER  -