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100			_aBaofu, Peter
245			_aBeyond human genetics to post-human genetics : _btowards a new theory of evolution and transformation, volume 1
260			_aNew Delhi : _bOverseas Press India, _c2018.
300			_axxxxi, 358 pages
520			_aIs 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." (BQ 2018) _bContrary 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.
650			_aHuman genetics
650			_aGenetics
650			_aHuman evolution
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