Over the past 200,000 years humans have continued to evolve. Human evolution first began in Africa roughly 6 million years ago and it describes the long process that our ancestors went through to transform into modern day humans. One of the first original human traits that were discovered around 4 million years ago was bipedalism, which is the ability to walk on two legs. Over a long period of times humans have grown taller, we have developed smaller teeth and jaws and have developed more complex language skills. Natural selection is a theory based off of Charles Darwin. This theory states that organisms best adapted to their environment usually survive and produce more offspring. Over the years through natural selection, humans have best evolved
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Using gene selection could lead to a new type of human, known as the “perfect” human which could lead to more discrimination and competition. Humans from the beginning were created with flaws probably for a purpose, eliminating these flaws; some believe is playing with god “if we change those traits or the child at all, we are playing God”. We were designed with flaws for either evolution purposes or simply so we don’t overpopulate the earth. Gene selection is said to allow humans to live for 30 more years. The drawbacks with this are we would not have enough young workers who can pay taxes going towards programs that support the older population. Also, this technology would create an even larger separation between the rich and the poor in terms of what each individual has access to, "There is going to be a growing gap between the haves and have-nots, and so the children of the rich really might be beautiful, and the children of ordinary people won't have access to the same sorts of expensive technologies.” This would greatly impact the society of this era a society built of pretty, healthy, and intelligent people, may sound perfect until the full social implications are considered. The technology in order to design a baby will be expensive, meaning not everyone will have access to this. This will then create a different class system, genetically designed people vs. naturally made
Using gene selection could lead to a new type of human, known as the “perfect” human which could lead to more discrimination and competition. Humans from the beginning were created with flaws probably for a purpose, eliminating these flaws; some believe is playing with god “if we change those traits or the child at all, we are playing God”. We were designed with flaws for either evolution purposes or simply so we don’t overpopulate the earth. Gene selection is said to allow humans to live for 30 more years. The drawbacks with this are we would not have enough young workers who can pay taxes going towards programs that support the older population. Also, this technology would create an even larger separation between the rich and the poor in terms of what each individual has access to, "There is going to be a growing gap between the haves and have-nots, and so the children of the rich really might be beautiful, and the children of ordinary people won't have access to the same sorts of expensive technologies.” This would greatly impact the society of this era a society built of pretty, healthy, and intelligent people, may sound perfect until the full social implications are considered. The technology in order to design a baby will be expensive, meaning not everyone will have access to this. This will then create a different class system, genetically designed people vs. naturally made