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Genetics: the post human 13 August, 2002 The very concept of what is human is changing. Some scientists go so far as to speak of "post human", hypothesizing the transference of the human capacity to think to a machine by means of a neuro-biological procedure. According to Fukuyama, a member of President Bush's Bioethical Committee, biotechnology with its potential capacity to control human behaviour, could even undermine the very concepts of equality, liberty, personal identity and personality on which modern society has been founded. TO HOME PAGE The New Era Solveig Edizioni