Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Human Gene Project of Public Enemy
The human genon project of public endeavor made a consensus sequence of what a human dine would look like from a lot of individuals. In fact, i think there ware 708 different donors. And then to come up with a consensus, you have to merge, it's like a a gray picture ofwhat a human geno iult lookd like. Ah, and to do that, because you had lots of these different pieces oof d and a coming together from different individuals, you take the easiest explanation,. So you force them to come together and come up with tha most common, linear sequence, essentially standard.
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