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the Thousand Ancient Genomes project
Alice Roberts • Ancestors
The metaphor of DNA as a blueprint or instruction manual is not correct given the prevalence of transposons; rather it is “part library and part zoo, with the unruly creatures of the menagerie constantly tearing into the pages, creating mutation and mayhem” (p. 177).
Book review – Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life, writte
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It is remarkable that nearly every scientist in genetics research is also engaged in the commerce of biotechnology. There are no detached observers. Everybody has a stake.
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
They had discovered that the Scandinavian hunter-gatherers they sampled shared a majority of genetic variants with northern Europeans today, whereas the farmer possessed more variants found in the eastern Mediterranean, in Greece and Cyprus. It seemed there really had been a migration – and that farmers and hunter-gatherers had stayed largely separ
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