Genetically Wrapped

Exploring Humanity's Evolutionary Development

  • The Need for Moral Duality

    The Need for Moral Duality

    If our sovereignty is threatened by a foreign country, we will do everything we can to protect ourselves. We will fight, kill and even die for our country. External challenges are perceived as threats to our way of life, as something to be guarded against. And yet when it comes to internal challenges to the […]

  • Pseudogenes – Reliving the Past

    Pseudogenes – Reliving the Past

    Genetic engineering is often criticised for being a manipulative activity, for interfering with Nature’s ways, and for tampering with our humanity despite being unaware or uncertain of the consequences. Yet there may be one area of genetic tinkering we could pursue that would not necessarily be so questionable, indeterminate, or risky. That is in relation […]

  • Nature’s Arms Race

    Nature’s Arms Race

    In an environment characterised by change, a species cannot afford to stand still. Genetic lethargy, genetic detachment or genetic derogation risks evolutionary demise. Certainly, in the evolutionary world, nothing good comes out of doing nothing. Evolution is a transitional process. The adoption of individual change drives wider change, environmental change. This spurs further individual change […]

  • Society’s Evolutionary Vulnerability

    Society’s Evolutionary Vulnerability

    Society has an intrinsic flaw, a weakness that generates a perilous vulnerability, something that, ultimately, may well threaten humanity’s existence. And although it may sound rather melodramatic, even scaremongering, by observing societal development we can see that there is an evolutionary logic to it. Society was created as our defensive mechanism to protect us from […]

  • The Right Partner for Reproductive Success

    The Right Partner for Reproductive Success

    Reproduction, the passing on of our genes to another generation, is life’s most important task. As divined by Nature, it is the very purpose of our existence. And yet, all species have limited opportunities for reproduction. An individual has to reach a certain level of maturity; they may have to wait until environmental conditions are […]

  • Genetic Performance and Mutational Opportunity

    Genetic Performance and Mutational Opportunity

    When an opportunity arises, some people will grasp it; many will not believe in or trust their luck, whilst others will sit back and let the opportunity pass or have it taken away from them. Fate may offer new possibilities, but whether those possibilities prove fruitful will depend on the individual. The same may be […]

  • Sci-fi Genetics – Correcting the Vision

    Sci-fi Genetics – Correcting the Vision

    Watching futuristic sci-fi films often proves quite problematic for many of us. A large proportion of the population always seems to be missing. Where are all the ugly, overweight, bespectacled, disabled people? They no longer seem to exist. We can only presume they were transferred into some “Wellsian” underworld. But maybe not; maybe there is […]

  • Genetic Luck – A Favoured Humanity?

    Genetic Luck – A Favoured Humanity?

    Right here: right now. What are the odds? And why us? It didn’t have to be us. So often – too often – we take our existence for granted. It didn’t have to be like this. We didn’t have to be here; we didn’t have to be here in this state of being. Things could […]

  • Genetic Intensification – The Drive to Extremes

    Genetic Intensification – The Drive to Extremes

    If something works, then we will persist in doing that something. We may even try to enhance or extend that something. In fact, the more we can do of that something, the better it should be for us. It’s tried and tested. Why would we do anything different? This is not only a natural instinct, […]