(February 16, 2016 at 12:46 am)AFTT47 Wrote: By the time we had the ability to eliminate death through natural causes, we would be directing our own evolution. I suspect we would need to be able to do that first.
Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences. Phenotypical expressions are often sourced in multiple loci on the genome which all interact in order to produce a particular phenotype ... and furthermore, one locus often has multiple functions. That means that many genetic manipulations would likely have to account for an entire web of interactions.
And that's not counting the effects of hox genes and the like.
