About the book: 2016 / Darwin, as you know, condemned the short-sightedness of a person who scrupulously studied the hereditary characteristics of horses and dogs and at the same time recklessly married. His nephew Francis Galton, seriously interested in the issue of consolidating the best qualities in subsequent generations, introduced the term “eugenics” to denote the science of improving the human race. Certain achievements of scientists in Europe, the USA and the USSR in the project of creating a “perfect man” have faded into the shadows cast by inhumane programs The Third Reich, but the very goals of eugenics became the responsibility of medical genetics, which was rapidly moving forward. The successes of modern genomics provoke in contemporaries a feeling of power in transforming their own nature. It seems that all the secrets of a healthy, long-term, almost eternal life are about to be unraveled... But is this so and what dangers lurk on the path to creating a physically and even spiritually flawless person of the future? What does the experience of previous generations of “breeders” teach us?»?…