Sex car
What would happen if all those people who carried defective genes were prevented from reproducing? Frank Ufen, Frankfurter Rundschau, August 15, 2007 For the supporters of eugenics, the answer is obvious: sooner or later there would be no more hereditary diseases. However, the science journalist Christian Göldenboog and the geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, who he interviewed, came to a completely different conclusion: Since there are countless people with damaged genes and new harmful mutations are constantly emerging, all eugenic projects are doomed to fail from the outset. Göldenboog spoke to renowned evolutionary biologists and geneticists to shed light on aspects of the phenomenon of sexuality that remain enigmatic - from the "invention" of sexual reproduction to homosexuality, the vast differences between egg and sperm, and the antagonistic relationships between maternal ones and paternal genes. Göldenboog's book offers a highly informative overview of the latest scientific research into the phenomenon of sexuality. What would happen if all those people who carried defective genes were prevented from reproducing?