New Children

For four billion years, chance wrote the genome. Now the first species is learning to read and correct it itself: sperm and mitochondrial donation, embryo selection, CRISPR, lab-grown germ cells, the artificial womb. Millions of people alive today came into being by routes that did not exist fifty years ago, and they ask: Who am I, why did it happen this way, am I wanted? This book follows the shifting line between healing and enhancing through the next two hundred years. A book for the new children, and for everyone who will have them.