Warning: The report is not accurate and has many understandings of science.
China's Massive Eugenics Project To Choose High-IQ Embryos - disinformation
by JacobSloan on February 22, 2013 in News
Via Edge.org, NYU evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller on how the
biggest eugenics push in history is just unfolding, which he feels will
dramatically shape the future:
China has been running the world’s largest and most successful eugenics
program for more than thirty years, driving China’s ever-faster rise as the
global superpower. When I learned about Chinese eugenics this summer, I was
astonished that its population policies had received so little attention.
China makes no secret of its eugenic ambitions, in either its cultural
history or its government policies.
The BGI-Shenzhen Cognitive Genomics Project is currently doing whole-genome
sequencing of 1,000 very-high-IQ people around the world, hunting for sets
of sets of IQ-predicting alleles. I know because I recently contributed my
DNA to the project, not fully understanding the implications. These IQ gene-
sets will be found eventually—but will probably be used mostly in China,
for China.
Potentially, the results would allow all Chinese couples to maximize the
intelligence of their offspring by selecting among their own fertilized eggs
for the one or two that include the highest likelihood of the highest
intelligence. Kids produced by any one couple typically differ by 5 to 15 IQ
points. So this method of “preimplantation embryo selection” might allow
IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per
generation. After a couple of generations, it would be game over for Western
global competitiveness.
Chinese eugenics will quickly become even more effective, given its massive
investment in genomic research on human mental and physical traits. BGI-
Shenzhen employs more than 4,000 researchers. It has far more “next-
generation” DNA sequencers that anywhere else in the world, and is
sequencing more than 50,000 genomes per year.
There is unusually close cooperation in China between government, academia,
medicine, education, media, parents, and consumerism in promoting a utopian
Han ethno-state. Given what I understand of evolutionary behavior genetics,
I expect—and hope—that they will succeed. The welfare and happiness of the
world’s most populous country depends upon it.
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