Beyond human genetics to post-human genetics : towards a new theory of evolution and transformation, volume 2
Baofu, Peter
Beyond human genetics to post-human genetics : towards a new theory of evolution and transformation, volume 2 - New Delhi : Overseas Press India, 2018. - xxxxi, 951 pages
Is human genetics really so vital that, as Francis Collins once claimed, "genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger"? (TE 2018) This positive view on human genetics can be contrasted with an opposing one by George M. Church, who warned us that "[your genetics is not your destiny." Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), human genetics (in relation to evolution and transformation—as well as other dichotomies) is neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe, such that there is no evolution without transformation (and vice versa), to be explained by the "evolution-transormation principle," the "explicability-inexplicability principle," the "valuation-devaluation principle," the "simpleness-complicatedness principle," the "regression-progression principle," the "functionality-nonfunctionality principle," the "intentionality-nonintentionality principle," the "survivability-nonsurvivability" principle, and other ones in "existential dialectics" (in Chapter Four).
As a matter of fact, this challenge to the conventional debate does not mean that human genetics, as a field of study, is not important, or that those diverse fields (related to human genetics)-such as life sciences, information systems, computing, science fiction, chemistry, statistics, history, religion, political science, sociology, anthropology, and so on-should be ignored. (WK 2017) Needless to say, neither of these extreme views is reasonable.
Rather, this book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of human genetics (and related fields) in regard to the dialectic relationship between evolution and transformation (and those in other dichotomies)-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the evolutionary-transformative theory of genetics) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way and is organized in four chapters.
This seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think about human genetics (in relation to the dialectic relationship between evolution and transformation-as well as those in other dichotomies) from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its "post-human" fate.
9788193879757
Human genetics
Genetics
Human evolution
575 / BAO-B
Beyond human genetics to post-human genetics : towards a new theory of evolution and transformation, volume 2 - New Delhi : Overseas Press India, 2018. - xxxxi, 951 pages
Is human genetics really so vital that, as Francis Collins once claimed, "genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger"? (TE 2018) This positive view on human genetics can be contrasted with an opposing one by George M. Church, who warned us that "[your genetics is not your destiny." Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), human genetics (in relation to evolution and transformation—as well as other dichotomies) is neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe, such that there is no evolution without transformation (and vice versa), to be explained by the "evolution-transormation principle," the "explicability-inexplicability principle," the "valuation-devaluation principle," the "simpleness-complicatedness principle," the "regression-progression principle," the "functionality-nonfunctionality principle," the "intentionality-nonintentionality principle," the "survivability-nonsurvivability" principle, and other ones in "existential dialectics" (in Chapter Four).
As a matter of fact, this challenge to the conventional debate does not mean that human genetics, as a field of study, is not important, or that those diverse fields (related to human genetics)-such as life sciences, information systems, computing, science fiction, chemistry, statistics, history, religion, political science, sociology, anthropology, and so on-should be ignored. (WK 2017) Needless to say, neither of these extreme views is reasonable.
Rather, this book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of human genetics (and related fields) in regard to the dialectic relationship between evolution and transformation (and those in other dichotomies)-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the evolutionary-transformative theory of genetics) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way and is organized in four chapters.
This seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think about human genetics (in relation to the dialectic relationship between evolution and transformation-as well as those in other dichotomies) from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its "post-human" fate.
9788193879757
Human genetics
Genetics
Human evolution
575 / BAO-B
