Juan Enríquez > Quotes

“if Darwin were alive today, he would likely revise a significant part of his great works, because the basic logic of evolution has shifted away from capital-n Nature toward two new core drivers: Unnatural selection* Nonrandom mutation*”
― Juan Enriquez, Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time

“We are transitioning from a hominid that is conscious of its environment into one that drastically shapes its own evolution.”
― Juan Enriquez, Homo Evolutis

“Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x faster than at any other time in our species history.121”
― Juan Enriquez, Homo Evolutis

“Like it or not, religion has been a key touchstone in most societies. Likely it will continue to be a key part of many societies. Maybe long term religion is doomed as countries get rich and knowledge grows. Maybe faith and belief will be substituted by ethical culture? Or maybe some form of religion or morality is genetically innate?101 Or maybe good morals simply mean better chances of surviving? If not through religion, then we better strengthen our moral/ethical backbones and societal frameworks fast because… We can be certain of one thing… The technologies and changes we are talking about are so powerful that they are changing humanity itself.”
― Juan Enriquez, Homo Evolutis

“twenty-three chromosomes lie 3.2 billion ATCGs. All of this code equals one human genome, which you could print out in a very boring 6.4-million-page book. A strand of DNA is so thin (two molecules across) that if all of the chromosomes in a single cell were stretched”
― Juan Enriquez, Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time

“We are in an age of exponentially changing technologies. Ergo, we are in an age of exponentially changing ethics.”
― Juan Enriquez, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics

“As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.”
― Juan Enriquez, The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future

“some core ethical-spiritual notions are passed on, evolve, and are repackaged and transmuted. Gradually a series of legitimate core concepts spread globally. So we see a gradual convergence on a set of principles common to major religions, and common to nonbelievers.”
― Juan Enriquez, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics