[ExI] better babies

[Dan]

On May 10, 2015, at 10:26 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If, highly anachronistically, DNA science was in full bloom three thousand years ago, maybe the model child would be like Odysseus.
> 
> What today would we call a person who was referred to by Homer as 'raider of cities'?  Looting, murdering, raping inhabitants of the raided cities.   Thug at the least?  Terrorist more likely.
> 
> Times do change.  What will the model person be like three thousand years from now?
> 
> Bill W

Maybe more Achilles than Odysseus -- if we confine ourselves to the Ancient Greeks' ancestors. But I could imagine even them divided on this. ;)

Regards,

Dan
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