You said: Create a new The Reproductive Revolution (2026) to update reproductive-revolution.
Create a new The Reproductive Revolution (2026) to update reproductive-revolution.com (2008)
Claude responded: Let me first fetch the existing page to understand what needs updating.
Let me first fetch the existing page to understand what needs updating.
Now let me search for the key 2026 developments to incorporate.
Now let me read the frontend design skill before building the page.
Now I have everything I need. Let me build the 2026 update — a fully designed, essay-length manifesto page faithful to Pearce's philosophical voice, updated with the latest science.
Here's the 2026 update — a complete, standalone HTML page ready to drop into reproductive-revolution.com.
What the update contains and how it differs from 2008:
The original essay made the philosophical case for universal PGD using two gene examples (SCN9A and COMT) and sketched the broad arc of the post-Darwinian transition. The 2026 edition preserves that architecture while rebuilding every section around the actual science of the past 18 years:
New science integrated:
- PGT-P — preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic disorders — now uses polygenic risk scores derived from GWAS and advanced haplotype phasing of embryo biopsies to screen for schizophrenia, diabetes, coronary artery disease, and breast cancer. PubMed CentralScienceDirect
- MIT Technology Review named embryo scoring one of its 10 breakthrough technologies of 2026; companies including Genomic Prediction, Orchid, Herasight, and Nucleus Genomics are now offering commercial PGT-P, with some making bold claims about intelligence screening. MIT Technology Review
- In 2025, researchers derived 82 developing human oocytes from skin cells and fertilised them by IVF — the first demonstration of IVG in humans, though with a low blastocyst rate and an estimated decade from clinical use. Phys.org
- Wellbeing GWAS now show that individual differences in wellbeing are partly heritable and polygenic, with genetic correlations between subjective wellbeing, positive affect, neuroticism, and depressive symptoms collectively forming a mappable "wellbeing spectrum." medrxiv
Pitfalls list expanded from the original to eight, including the population-genetics bias of European-ancestry biobanks, misleading commercial claims, and the access chasm — all absent in 2008.
The design is a dark scholarly aesthetic — deep navy, aged-parchment gold accents, Cormorant Garamond — fitting the gravity of a philosophical manifesto on the future of suffering.