Wednesday, March 21, 2018

what does it mean to be human?

 Different individuals of a species do not necessarily have identical genomes. What is the nature and extent of the variability? With intraspecies variability as a baseline, what are the similarities and differences between genomes of different species? Comparative genomics thereby allows us to address a question central not only to this book but to the field as a whole: what does it mean to be human?

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