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Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau

Radical Evolution

The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

by Joel Garreau
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  • May 1, 2005, 400 pages
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  • May 2006, 400 pages
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Joel Garreau is the author of the bestselling Edge City: Life on the New Frontier and The Nine Nations of North America, he is a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, a member of the scenario-planning organization Global Business Network, and has served as a senior fellow at George Mason University and the University of California at Berkeley.He lives in Broad Run, Virginia.

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