Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work

In a world of synthetic gene drives, the border between the human and the natural, between the laboratory and the wild, already deeply blurred, all but dissolves. In such a world, not only do people determine the conditions under which evolution is taking place, people can—again, in principle—determine the outcome.

But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension,

“genes aren’t destiny; rather they affect probability.”