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January 19, 2016July 8, 2016 misciwriters Biodiversity, Biology, genetics

Race: What’s genes got to do with it?

By Shweta Ramdas

The Human Genome Project released the sequence of the human genome in 2001. On its heels came the question: what does genetics tell us about race?

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