Genetics of Original Sin by Christian De Duve
Author:Christian De Duve [de Duve, Christian; Patterson, Neil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-300-16871-6
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00
III
The Human Adventure
Introduction
W e enter the last episode of the history of life, the one that concerns us most directly, as we are its outcome (most likely provisional, as evolution is far from finished). In this part of the book, I briefly retrace the main steps of hominization, paying special attention to the development of the brain, which is its most outstanding event, and to the latest developments that have led to today’s world, totally dominated—and threatened—by the inordinate success of the human species.
I conduct this analysis in the light of the notions that are available on the earlier history of life and on its mechanisms, with as main source of illumination the “beacon” of natural selection. I thus arrive at the book’s central theme: “original sin” reinterpreted in the light of knowledge, namely the genetic flaw imprinted into human nature by natural selection.
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