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Eugenics with Adam Rutherford

Dan Snow's History Hit

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Could We Breed Humans With Particular Characteristics?

If we wanted to, me and you could create a population where they had longer calves. That is not impossible but it would have to be incredibly well controlled. You can't avoid what's going on in the complexities of our genomes. We simply don't know nearly enough about how human genetics actually works. i c orin various measures of intelligence, also positively correlate with anarexi or a d h d or bi polar disorder.

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