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It's quite easy to make a baby. But it's also quite risky: you never know what will pop out. Every baby is an unpredictable mix of its parents' genes and features and usually the result isn’t too bad. But sometimes children are born with any one of thousands of inherited disorders that even kill.
Is there a better way? Can new genomic technology reduce the risk of inherited disease? In this talk, Armand Leroi argues that it can and will. In the next few years eugenics will cease to be the stuff of dystopian fantasies and become a part of daily life. The neoeugenic society is inevitable – and we have to prepare for it.
Armand Marie Leroi
Professor Armand Marie Leroi is Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London. In addition to his scientific work, he has written and presented many television programmes for Channel 4, Discovery, National Geographic and the BBC, most recently Aristotle’s Lagoon (2010, BBC4). His first book, Mutants: on the form, variety and errors of the human body (2004) won the Guardian First Book Award; he is currently writing another on Aristotle’s biology.
The lecture will be in English with simultaneous interpretation into Greek.
Admission is free with admission tickets.
