Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?”
"Risky Genetic Fantasies" in The Los Angeles Times (29 July 2001), p. M4
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