Evolving tomorrow : genetic engineering and the evolutionary future of the Anthropocene / Asher D. Cutter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cutter, Asher D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic engineering.

Evolution (Biology).

Human ecology.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume explores how humans have manipulated the ancient forces of evolution and the future possibilities of genetic engineering for conservation and rewilding, de-extinction, and even the creation of viable populations of entirely new species. In so doing, this thought-provoking book explores the potential future of life on planet Earth.

Contents:

cover

praisepage

titlepage

copyright

dedication

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

About the Author

Part 1 The hearts of nature

1 Nature in the raw, and cooked

1.1 The nature of change

1.2 Evolving tomorrow

2 Selection, naturally and otherwise

2.1 Evolution by natural selection

2.2 The breeder's equation

2.3 Selection in relation to sex

3 Ancient forces

3.1 Getting from A to T

3.2 A history of mutational events

4 Evolution's racetracks

4.1 Everyday evolution

4.2 Experimental evolution

5 Evolutionary accelerants and speed bumps

5.1 Putting on the brakes

5.2 Skirting the limits

6 Hijacking genetics

6.1 What becomes of an unwelcome guest

6.2 What to do

7 Genetic welding

7.1 A new force of evolution

7.2 Genetic time bombs

8 On the origin of species

8.1 What makes a species

8.2 Radiations

9 Do-it-yourself speciation

10 Ongoing evolutionary outcomes

10.1 Show me your teeth

10.2 Inputs and outputs

10.3 Big and small

10.4 Air and ground

Part 2 Evolutionary futures

11 How to evolve a dragon

11.1 No myth

11.2 Decisions

12 Evolutionary engineering in the flesh

12.1 Fleshing out a founding stock

12.2 Mary Poppins's umbrella

12.3 A recipe

13 Nature, rewilded

13.1 Recall of the wild

13.2 Total recall of the wild: de-extinction

13.3 Back to the future of the wild: novafauna

14 When nature comes to call

14.1 Manufacturing destiny

14.2 What is nature?

15 Inspection by the department of health, safety, and ethics

15.1 Restoration and reunion

15.2 GMO to GDO

15.3 How to think

16 When we become dragons

16.1 Heritable human genome editing

16.2 The echoes of eugenics

16.3 How much meddling is too much meddling?.

17 A midnight coterie of transcendent fauna

17.1 Lost world

17.2 Defenses of fauna

17.3 The change to come

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Cutter, Asher D. Evolving Tomorrow

ISBN:

9780191986871

0191986879

9780198874539

0198874537