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Study Up For 'Think': The Rules Of Playing God

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How are scientists transcending the limits of evolution to solve global problems like food shortages and climate change?  Science writer Adam Rutherford tracks the rise of synthetic biology - and the complications that arise in its wake -  for his new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself. Rutherford joins Think host Krys Boyd at noon.

Rutherford makes the case for manipulating nature to cure diseases in , using breeding and farming as examples of how humans regularly engineer outcomes. 

Listen to Think from noon to 2 p.m., and again from 8 to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday on ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 90.1 FM or .

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Lyndsay Knecht is assistant producer for Think.