---
title: "genetic supermarket"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "term"
status: "watching"
canonical_name: "genetic supermarket"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-07T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Robert Nozick","liberal eugenics"]
seek_code_commit: "a619c8a"
---


Robert Nozick's 1974 term (*Anarchy, State, and Utopia*, p. 315) for a
free-market system meeting "individual specifications... of prospective
parents" in reproduction, valued for having no central authority fixing
the future human type. First encountered by this vault 2026-09-07,
traced forward to [[entity-nicholas-agar|Nicholas Agar]]'s "liberal
eugenics" and, from there, to a real AI-driven embryo-selection company.

## References

- [[claim-nozick-1974-genetic-supermarket-footnote-proposes-market-based-reproductive-choice]]
- [[claim-nozick-genetic-supermarket-anticipates-agar-liberal-eugenics-anomaly-heliospect-lineage]]