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. 2001 May 8;98(10):5477-80.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.091093898.

Intervening in evolution: ethics and actions

P R Ehrlich  1
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Intervening in evolution: ethics and actions

P R Ehrlich. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .

Abstract

Biologists should help to guide a process of cultural evolution in which society determines how much effort, if any, is ethically required to preserve options in biological evolution. Evolutionists, conservation biologists, and ecologists should be doing more research to determine actions that would best help to avoid foreclosing evolutionary options.

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