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To: tnsaf who started this subject2/26/2001 3:10:13 AM
From: sim1   of 7143
 
On human nature
Feb 14th 2001
From The Economist print edition

Rival versions of the human genome have been published at last. Despite arguments
between the teams that produced them, the results are a huge step towards a proper
understanding of how humans work

THE number of the beast may be 666, but the number of the person is 26,588. At least,
it is according to Celera Genomics, which reckons that that is the number of genes it has
found in the human genome. According to the Human Genome Project consortium,
it is about 31,000. Both figures are subject to the usual caveats about margins of error.
But one thing is clear from this week’s publication of the papers containing the first drafts
of the human genome: it takes far fewer genes to make a person than people once
thought.<snip>

Full article,
economist.co.uk
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