Intervening in evolution: Ethics and actions

被引:25
作者
Ehrlich, PR [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
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10.1073/pnas.091093898
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Biologists should help to guide a process of cultural evolution in which society determines how much effort, if any, is ethically required to preserve options in biological evolution. Evolutionists, conservation biologists, and ecologists should be doing more research to determine actions that would best help to avoid foreclosing evolutionary options.
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页码:5477 / 5480
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