For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed everything — hybridizing plants, breeding animals, altering the environment and even purposefully evolving ourselves. Juan Enriquez provides five guidelines for a future where this ability to program life rapidly accelerates. "This is the single most exciting adventure human beings have been on," Enriquez says. "This is the single greatest superpower humans have ever had."

Juan Enriquez: We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely

We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely

Lifecode, the programming of life, shifts the paradigm from natural evolution to deliberate genetic editing, offering unprecedented control.

Unnatural selection and non-random mutation redefine existence, challenging moral and ethical boundaries through genetic engineering.

Harnessing 'lifecode' transforms breeding into precise genetic programming, reshaping life on Earth beyond natural selection.