# Selecting the Superman? Embyro selection with Jonathan Anomaly

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Podcast: [Free Radicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-radicals-7588534)
Published: 2026-06-23T11:17:33+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/danielshur/episodes/Selecting-the-Superman--Embyro-selection-with-Jonathan-Anomaly-e3l5dq3
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## Resource

Jonathan Anomaly is a co-founder of Herasight and former PPE professor. Herasight is pioneering polygenic screening for embryos, to help parents undergoing IVF select embryos for health, intelligence, height, and other traits people care about. We discuss the ethics of embryo selection and radical life extension. Jonathan has a Nietzschean view of humanity: within each of us we have the opportunity to either envy greatness in others, or seek to cultivate it within ourselves and in the world. In an era of total biological control, humanity can transcend its limitations and become something better. Watch on YouTube . Read the transcript .

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