Book Review: Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

March 26, 2008

Enhancing Evolution will appeal to readers from the general, as well as professional, audiences, with Harris’s easy to follow tongue-in-cheek style. His text serves both as a response to critics of enhancement technologies and a positive argument in favor of the development and use of such technologies. The book is well organized and a fairly quick read. Each chapter is devoted to a specific argument or topic. The arguments are well laid out, and Harris has considerable skill in analytical reasoning. Still there are a few areas where his arguments were weak or could use improvement. (Metapsychology)