Welcome to our genetic world.Fast furious and out of control.This is not the world of the
future?it's the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming
extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in
only four hundred genes is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that
worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction?is it worse than the disease? We live
in a time of momentous scientific leaps a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm
online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time
when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else?and an unsuspecting person and his
family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within
their chromosomes.... The future is closer than you think.
