Friday, July 07, 2006
Bear With Me
I finished Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio last week. A very good read, although I'm admittedly not an expert on the human genome or molecular biology. That's okay, because Bear is. I must admit that I skimmed some of the "deep science" passages and cut to the plot, which was very good: the human race is about to make a large evolutionary leap forward, and some people are very uncomfortable with that. The scenarios he described (hysteria over mass miscarriages, government control over pregnant women, shunning the new breed of humans) are all too plausible. Give it a read sometime.
Roberta 5:23 PM