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In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, Enriquez sorts out the ethics associated with evolving humans and imagines the ways we&#8217;ll have to transform our own bodies if we hope to explore and live in places other than Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals \u2014 futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, Enriquez sorts out the ethics associated with evolving humans and imagines the ways we&#8217;ll have to transform our own bodies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":102228,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=102228","url_meta":{"origin":84218,"position":0},"title":"What will humans look like in 100 years?","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"30\/11\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"What will humans look like in 100\u00a0years?We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals \u2014 futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? 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