Troy Duster
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/ 13 July 2004

Much ado about (almost) nothing

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. In the spring of 2000 Francis Collins and Craig Venter announced at a White House news conference the completion of ”the first draft” of the mapping and sequencing of human DNA, discovering that racial classifications make no sense at molecular level; we humans are 99,9% alike in our DNA. When the genome was mapped our racial differences faded into insignificance — or did they?