"@<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K78jqx9fx2I&amp;t=3h30m30s"">3:30:30</a> Jamie mentions how we might make bad choices in gene editing for future population", even end up extinct. It's my suspicion that Neanderthals did not so much go extinct as join the more populous, competitive, emotionally-driven branch of the Homo genus. Whether conscious decided by anyone or not, it was smart as a (sub)species. However look where we are now? The world suffers under the grip of the human branch that survived to provide the most genetic material of the genome. Knowledge is power, but not always the power the knowledgeable believe they wield. Are we to select out the most beneficial genes to prevent expressions that we currently consider less desirable? Gingers don't have souls, remember. Autism is a syndrome of many potential symptoms to varying degrees, and likely is as much if not more a result of epigenetic expressions. Shall we diminish diversity as we have done with so many of our crops, so that one blight or global disaster could take us all out?