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Algeny, A New Word--A New World
by Jeremy Rifkin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Viking Adult (1983-05-09)
ISBN: 0670108855
EAN: 9780670108855
Dewey Decimal #: 303.483
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 298 pages
Edition: 1St Edition
SKU: 23876
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Ex-library book with usual stickers and markings.
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Customer Reviews
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Concise anti-genetic engineering argument
Rating  (3)
Date: 2001-07-25
1 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
In arguing against social darwinism and gentic human tampering, he does a great job of decontructing darwinism itself. Some simple, but classic arguments against darwinian evolution (he examines the Miller experiment involving creation of amino acids in "primordial soup"), and some very good arguments against generic engineering.
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Mr. Rifkin blusters but shoots wide of the mark
Rating  (5)
Date: 1998-06-22
10 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
Genetic engineering seems likely to change the relationship between man and biological nature.To Mr. Rifkin's credit, he wrote _Algeny_ on this subject some 15 years ago. Unfortunately, he shows little familiarity with the topics he discusses -- the book is deeply marred by Rifkin's apparent fundamental misunderstandings of evolutionary science and Darwinism. Rifkin also wastes much space on invidious comparisons between himself and "other futurists". Mistaken in its premises, bombastically written, filled with bad logic that fails to support its sweeping conclusions: avoid this book.
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