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The technology overrides the standard rules of genetic inheritance, ensuring that a particular trait, delivered by humans into an organism’s DNA using advanced gene-editing technology, spreads to all subsequent generations, thereby altering the future of the entire species.
The national debt is a burden on future generations.
But this ignores the fact that holders of the very same debt will be among the supposedly burdened future generations.
This may be bad for the distribution of wealth and income, because it will enrich the creditor at the expense of the debtor, but there will be no net burden on future generations.
The risk today is that generations that have not known war will reproduce the chain of events that lead to it.
It is less clear whether they have enough historical sense to know that they are poking a monster that post-World War II generations hoped was dead but that we now know only lay dormant, until obliviousness to the past could enable it to be reawakened.
The endowments built through these donations allow successive generations to enjoy the same opportunity for enrichment.
Under Samuelson’s guidance, generations of economists have based their research not on any physical structure underlying thought and behavior, but only on the assumption of rationality.
How can we be sure that the components used in future generations of European technology – not only 5G – will be secure?
For the genome, such “notes” emerge from cell survival over many generations in an ever-changing environment.
As a result, the memory of the infection is retained across generations.
When the Berlin Wall fell, barely two generations after the war ended, the standard of living in communist East Germany was just one-fifth the level attained in capitalist West Germany.
We need a dramatic increase in funding for research and development to make the next generations of wind, solar, and biomass energy cheaper and more effective.
At the societal level, the UN is about the rights and responsibilities of all of us, including future generations.
To be sure, UNRWA has long been criticized by some for passing down refugee status across generations since 1948.
But, in order to save the planet we know, and to preserve the world’s food supply and the well-being of future generations, there is no alternative to shifting to a new, low-carbon energy system.
As opportunities to break the cycle are missed, these disadvantages are passed on to subsequent generations, reinforcing their impact.
Both countries were required to deposit 10% of the expected oil income in a blocked foreign account intended for future generations.
Among other things, that fiscal blowout will undermine the government’s ability to invest in education and infrastructure for future generations.
For some traits, we do not have to speculate – we can measure and compare on the basis of studies covering thousands of individuals over several generations.
This genetic approach measures effects that have accumulated over hundreds to thousands of generations, and the message is clear: humans have evolved in these respects fairly recently, some in one direction, some in another, depending on their environment and other conditions encountered.
Instead of looking for changes in genes that take many generations to accumulate until they can be detected, we have measured natural selection directly.
Whether it will operate consistently enough for a long enough time to produce significant genetic change can be answered only by future generations.
We found significant selection and projected that if it continued for ten generations, the women would evolve to be about two centimeters shorter and have their first child about five months earlier.
If evolution took its steady course and changed the genetic basis of height and age at first birth, we might not see women ten generations later who were shorter and matured earlier, for the effects of nutrition and culture could more than compensate for the genetic change.
We owe it to ourselves and to future generations to use all opportunities to create the conditions for increased trust and mutual understanding that are needed to free the world of the nuclear threat.
Few Chinese do not know legends and stories from history, which are passed down through the generations in novels, operas, plays and now films, comic books and even TV series.
Our livelihoods, not to mention those of future generations, should not be held hostage by our ongoing addiction to fossil fuels.
At the same time, such moments remind us that future generations ultimately will judge us not on the basis of what we accumulated – whether personally, as organizations, or as states – but by the impact we had on those around us, and by how well we responded to their needs.
Britain’s economy grew more steadily and rapidly than it had done for several generations, and the tax revenue generated by growth enabled the government to pour money into education and the National Health Service.
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