Blog Post #2
Dr. Gerogia Dunston
Dr. Georgia Dunston focus for her lecture was the age of the human genome and the pursuit of wisdom in the 21st century. To begin she addressed the question “in what ways is knowledge generated by various fields of study used to develop solutions to human social problems and challenges?” This is not only a question I ask myself when I think about goals in life and my major in college. Dr. Dunston then went on to answer this question by saying that it reveals our human identity and it shows the nature of life. She then begins to explain the genomic text and how it shows biologically the mapping of genes, diseases, and health differentiation. Along with this it explains the population history and the human origins. After this explanation of the genomic text she lost my focus due to a confusion of what she was talking about. However to conclude she left us with a great quote from T.S. Elliot stating that “at the end of all our exploring we shall arrive where we began, and know the place for the first time.” I would have thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Dunston’s lecture however it was a little difficult to follow.
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