{"id":34570,"date":"2017-02-14T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/how-soon-will-genetic-enhancement-create-smarter-humans"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:52:28","slug":"how-soon-will-genetic-enhancement-create-smarter-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/how-soon-will-genetic-enhancement-create-smarter-humans","title":{"rendered":"How Soon Will Genetic Enhancement Create Smarter Humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-soon-will-genetic-enhancement-create-smarter-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video is part of a series on genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.92y.org\">7 Days of Genius Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1990s, scientists thought they were close to locating specific genes that controlled for human intelligence in all its manifestations: musical genius, analytical acumen, physical prowess, etc. But the truth turns out to be more complicated, says Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker. There are many genes \u2014 perhaps thousands \u2014 that affect human intelligence, and while manipulating them may have predictable benefits, the adverse consequences remain unpredictable. Thus experimenting with our so-called intelligence genes will likely be met with high levels of skepticism in caution. It\u2019s proof, says Pinker, that technological advancement doesn\u2019t always march to the drum beat of inexorable forward progress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/steven-pinker-on-bioengineering-genius?utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1487096959\">http:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/steven-pinker-on-bioengineering-g...1487096959<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is part of a series on genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y\u2019s 7 Days of Genius Festival. In the late 1990s, scientists thought they were close to locating specific genes that controlled for human intelligence in all its manifestations: musical genius, analytical acumen, physical prowess, etc. But the truth turns out to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48871,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34570\/revisions\/48871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}