Algeny: A New Word--A New World

by Jeremy Rifkin

Book Overview

Algeny, by Jeremy Rifkin Hardcover book published by the Viking Press, copyright 1983 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140071067
• ISBN13: 9780140071061
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mr. Rifkin blusters but shoots wide of the mark

Genetic engineering seems likely to change the relationship between man and biological nature.To Mr. Rifkin's credit, he wrote _Algeny_ on this subject some 15 years ago. Unfortunately, he shows little familiarity with the topics he discusses -- the book is deeply marred by Rifkin's apparent fundamental misunderstandings of evolutionary science and Darwinism. Rifkin also wastes much space on invidious comparisons between himself and "other futurists".Mistaken in its premises, bombastically written, filled with bad logic that fails to support its sweeping conclusions: avoid this book.