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From the Ted Talk by Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering

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So I want to take you through a kind of whirlwind tour of that and then at the end talk a little bit about what some of the imcolinpatis are for us and for our species, as well as our cetluurs, because of this change. Now we actually have been doing it for a long time. We started svleitceley bnidreeg animals many, many thousands of years ago. And if you think of dogs for example, dogs are now intentionally-designed creatures. There isn't a dog on this earth that's a natural creature. Dogs are the result of selectively breeding traits that we like. But we had to do it the hard way in the old days by choosing offspring that looked a particular way and then breeding them. We don't have to do it that way amyrnoe.

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So I want to take you through a kind of whirlwind tour of that and then at the end talk a little bit about what some of the ____________ are for us and for our species, as well as our ________, because of this change. Now we actually have been doing it for a long time. We started ___________ ________ animals many, many thousands of years ago. And if you think of dogs for example, dogs are now intentionally-designed creatures. There isn't a dog on this earth that's a natural creature. Dogs are the result of selectively breeding traits that we like. But we had to do it the hard way in the old days by choosing offspring that looked a particular way and then breeding them. We don't have to do it that way _______.

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  1. anymore
  2. breeding
  3. cultures
  4. implications
  5. selectively

Original Text


So I want to take you through a kind of whirlwind tour of that and then at the end talk a little bit about what some of the implications are for us and for our species, as well as our cultures, because of this change. Now we actually have been doing it for a long time. We started selectively breeding animals many, many thousands of years ago. And if you think of dogs for example, dogs are now intentionally-designed creatures. There isn't a dog on this earth that's a natural creature. Dogs are the result of selectively breeding traits that we like. But we had to do it the hard way in the old days by choosing offspring that looked a particular way and then breeding them. We don't have to do it that way anymore.

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Important Words


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