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ESEP Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics Contact the journal RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections ESEP 13:15-21 (2013) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00131 AS I SEE IT Remaking Homo: ethical issues on future human enhancement Arthur Saniotis* School of Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia *Email: arthur.saniotis@adelaide.edu.au ABSTRACT: Since prehistory, the genus Homo has used technologies in order to enhance fitness. With the growth of bio-technologies, western medicine is improving the structure and function of the human body beyond its natural state. Bio-technological improvements in the next 50 yr promise further increases in human life span and performance. Notwithstanding the ethical argument encouraging transhumanist technologies, present human societies have yet to come to grips with the possibility of such a future world. This article will discuss future nootropic enhancers and human-animal gene splicing as possible enhancement technologies in relation to their ethical and social implications. KEY WORDS: Evolution · Neural plasticity · Nootropics · Cosmetic neurology · Chimera · Post‑human Full text in pdf format PreviousNextCite this article as: Saniotis A (2013) Remaking Homo: ethical issues on future human enhancement. Ethics Sci Environ Polit 13:15-21. https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00131 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in ESEP Vol. 13, No. 1. Online publication date: March 08, 2013 Print ISSN: 1863-5415; Online ISSN: 1611-8014 Copyright © 2013 Inter-Research.
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