Phil Westermann

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Humans’ DNA is 99.9% identical. It is that tiny difference—just 0.1%—along with what we loosely call the “environment”xiv that accounts for the variation in our remarkable outward appearance, or phenotype.
Phil Westermann
Amazing that just 0.1% difference in DNA also accounts for the beauty, the diversity of cultures, and the richness of human progress.
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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