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What is human in humans? Responses from biology, anthropology, and philosophy
1Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada. gilles.bibeau2@sympatico.ca
Abstract:
Genomics has brought biology, medicine, agriculture, psychology, anthropology, and even philosophy to a new threshold. In this new context, the question about "what is human in humans" may end up being answered by geneticists, specialists of technoscience, and owners of biotech companies. The author defends, in this article, the idea that humanity is at risk in our age of genetic engineering, biotechnologies, and market-geared genetic research; he also argues that the values at the very core of our postgenomic era bring to its peak the science-based ideology that has developed since the time of Galileo, Newton, Descartes, and Harvey; finally, it shows that the bioindustry has invented a new genomythology that goes against the scientific evidence produced by the research in human sciences in which life is interpreted as a language.
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