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This whole discussion about

Submitted by ekoike on Wed, 10/17/2007 - 9:32pm.

This whole discussion about designer genes that we had in class was really interesting-! It made me think so much about what constitutes a "designer" selection.

Someone in class was saying that we make our own designer selections through choosing our partners... and perhaps in some sense, we are making our own steps towards "selecting" desirable traits and passing them off to our offsprings.

The whole idea of "designer genes" is a bit unnatural... and probably creates less of a variation (that would occur more in natural selection).

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