Episode 2: Homo Sapiens GM

Yael is a normal girl with a normal life. But she is not really like all her peers: she is a genetically modified girl. A defect in her DNA would have forced her to avoid the risk of getting sick. We’ll find out, how it was possible to correct the error that nature had made. Further we will discover how cultural evolution is taking over biological evolution and we will also prove that today we have already achieved all the skills needed to change our biology and to improve ourselves.

Mutation, gene flow, genetic drift and natural selection are the forces of extraordinary power that have shaped life on Earth and driven the evolutionary process for 4,5 billion years. An unstoppable…

Yael is a normal girl with a normal life. But she is not really like all her peers: she is a genetically modified girl. A defect in her DNA would have forced her to avoid the risk of getting sick. We…

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