Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, by Jamie Metzl

“If you can only read one book on the future of our species, this is it”

— Sanjay Gupta

“A must-read book”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“An outstanding guide to the most important conversation of our lives”

— Ray Kurzweil

“Metzl writes with great clarity and a sense of urgency that we should all take to heart.”

— NPR Books

“Propulsive, fact-packed and engrossing…Metzl has a knack both for clarifying granular scientific and moral complexities, and for seeing the big picture”

Nature
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, by Jamie Metzl

Advance Praise for Hacking Darwin:

“If you can only read one book on the future of our species, this is it”

— Sanjay Gupta

“A must-read book”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“An outstanding guide to the most important conversation of our lives”

— Ray Kurzweil

“Important and thought-provoking”

— George Church

“A must-read for the entire planet”

Former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell

Our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology in a genetic revolution that will transform our healthcare, the way we make babies, the nature of the babies we make, and our evolution as a species.

But although the choices we make today will be the difference between realizing breathtaking advances in human well-being and descending into a dangerous genetic arms race, we aren’t at all ready for this fast-approaching future.

Jamie Metzl’s Hacking Darwin is your guide to what’s happening, what’s at stake, and what we each and all must do now to prepare.