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Genetics and the Human Genome
Assistant Professor, Harvard University; Musician
It's the right mix of what I love, says Pardis.
June 30, 2008 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University; Musician
It's the right mix of what I love, says Pardis.
June 30, 2008 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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Jim Stiene on April 24, 2009, 6:39 PM
At some point we will probably measure others in a number of skills, then use computers to examine the relationship between those scoring high and low in respective skills to get a clue as to what genes effect what abilities, though I imagine they have already started on this.
Then again the combination may be too complex. Intelligence, for example is to broad an idea to search for a handful of genes. But how does Mozart or Beethovens genes differe from the rest of us? Shakespear or Einstein? Tesla or Edison?
Eventually we will probably evolve into whatever we want to, impatient with natural processes doing it fore us.
In 100 years there will be a supermarket for musical writing, athletic, artistic or mathematical ability. Then again, just increasing the craniums size in babies increases the amount of neurons, synapses and brain cells they can hold. A very low tech upgrade to homo sapiens.
Lee . on August 13, 2009, 3:01 PM
Pardis Sabeti’s profile on NOVA scienceNOW
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0302/04.html
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