Last in a series of eight programmes on how the most fundamental of the biological sciences is being used in a new technology
8: Elective Selection by PROFESSOR T. M. SONNEBORN
University of Indiana
The possibilities suggested by the application of genetics to man seem, at the moment, to be almost frightening. Professor Sonneborn suggests that this is simply due to their novelty. He maintains that we will accept them as and when they become available, just as we have come to accept contraception and therapeutic abortion as part of our social behaviour.
Recorded for the BBC at the University of Indiana