On human nature.
A huge step toward understanding how humans works was made in February 2001, when two rival teams published their papers containing the first drafts of the human genome. The two groups are Celera, a commercial organization that intends to profit from its discoveries, and the Human Genome Project, a...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 358; pp. 79 - 83 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
February 17 2001
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