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MikeFOne of capitalist science -- and genetic determinism's -- more repugnant efforts, an effort to come up with a technofix for extinction... I'm not an "animal rights" proponent, but I am an ecologist that grasps that our current ecological crises start with our commodification of the natural world, our alienation from the necessary roots of our material existence and our anthropocentric assumption that the natural world exists for us -- "us" actually meaning the 1%, in practical terms, but promoted as a society-encompassing ideology. This should be no more permitted than genetic engineering on humans. And what of the chimera they are creating? Living elephants, like all existing organisms are the results of eons of natural selection and specific ecological interactions. What are the ecological, physiological, social and psychological ramifications for the elephants they are genetically distorting? And keep in mind that elephants are intelligent, social organisms. And in what ways will ruling class funders use this to downplay the extinction crisis they are causing? --- Will these reprogrammed elephant cells ever make a mammoth?<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00670-z" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00670-z</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/geneticdeterminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geneticdeterminism</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/geneticengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geneticengineering</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a>

Nonia ParienteWe didn't think this would be so timely! This is an important read given current discussions about <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GeneticDeterminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneticDeterminism</a> "The <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/genomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genomic</a> case against <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/genetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genetic</a> determinism" Gene Robinson and cols<a href="https://fediscience.org/@PLOSBiology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@PLOSBiology</a> <a href="https://plos.io/49QzK2j" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://plos.io/49QzK2j</a>

MikeF‘All of Us’ genetics chart stirs unease over controversial depiction of race<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00568-w" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00568-w</a><a href="https://birds.town/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genetics</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/geneticdeterminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geneticdeterminism</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/racismandscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racismandscience</a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a>

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