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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
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There are no essential genetic elements for any particular group of people who might be identified as a “race.” As far as genetics is concerned, race does not exist.
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Yes, the presentations and formal lectures at scientific meetings can be dreadfully important, but—and this is a trade secret—they can be breathtakingly boring. Sometimes astonishing results are mired in slides so dense and incomprehensible that they make you want to poke the free conference pen in your eye, or strangle yourself with the name-tag lanyard.
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Life is a chemical reaction. Life is derived from what came before. Life is imperfect copying. Life is the accumulation and refinement of information embedded in DNA.
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To be incurious is to be inhuman.