The posthumanist project proposes directing the evolution of human beings by promoting their improvement through technological means to create a variety of entities that will have few or no common characteristics with current humans. Its agenda is extremely broad and this study mostly addresses enhancement of the human organism through genetic modification techniques. An overview of posthumanist values and a brief discussion of its philosophical background provide a framework to understand its ideals. Genetics and ethics are employed to assess some claims of the posthumanist program of creating evolved humans; in particular, the capabilities and limitations of techniques for somatic and germline genome editing. Consequences of the creation of posthumans are discussed in relation to accepted current human beings and values. It is concluded that the posthumanist program rests on a large number of hypotheses without sufficient evidence and with little or no consideration of the consequences of its implementation.

后人类主义项目建议通过技术手段促进人类的进步来指导人类的进化，以创建与当前人类几乎没有或没有共同特征的各种实体。它的议程非常广泛，这项研究主要解决通过基因改造技术增强人类有机体的问题。对后人文主义价值观的概述及其哲学背景的简要讨论提供了一个理解其理想的框架。遗传学和伦理学被用来评估创造进化人类的后人类主义计划的一些主张；特别是体细胞和种系基因组编辑技术的能力和局限性。后人类创造的后果与公认的当前人类和价值观相关。