This look into the code of life sparked a renewed interest in taking a look at who we are, and what it means to be human and the differences and similarities among different races. It was reported in the popular press that every human being is approximately 99.9 percent the same and there is greater variation in a person’s genetic make-up within each race than among the races. This finding leads many people to conclude that humans are so fundamentally alike that the concept of race is outdated, essentially a myth, a mental projection, at least from the biological point of view. For example, we
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