George Church

A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.

When hunters find a mammoth carcass in the sea, its resurrection becomes the first manifestation of the next scientific revolution: bioengineering.

The pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism and modern environmentalism urges us to use our god-like powers to revive lost species and fight extinction.