Cover Story: human enhancement Should we guide the evolution of our species? Do parents have a duty to alter their children’s genes? What’s wrong with taking smart drugs? Does moral enhancement undermine freedom? How distant is a posthuman future? These questions and more are discussed in a t imely forum on the ethics of human enhancement.

FORUM 67 Rational evolution Julian Savulescu 74 Moral engineering Michael Hauskeller 79 Feeling more like myself

Donna Dickenson

85 Should students take smart drugs?

Darian Meacham

92 Our transhuman future Russell Blackford

BOOKS 114 Erik Parens on Unfit for the Future 118 Remy Debes on Dignity 120 John P Sullins on Wired for War 122 Wayne Yuen on Peter Singer and

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