The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

by Eben Kirksey

Book Overview

An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species?

"That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner."
--Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna

At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250265355
• ISBN13: 9781250265357
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"