By:Jonathan Leake
May 19, 2019
Artificial fertilisation is altering human evolution by letting the “subfertile” or “disease prone” have babies when nature would normally stop them, a leading fertility researcher has claimed.
The procedure means defective genes that would normally die with the carrier are instead transmitted to future generations, Dr Hans Hanevik will tell the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Eshre) in Vienna.
Eventually, he suggests, the birth of millions of babies through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) could alter the human genome and the evolution of the species.