I wanna be like you
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- human cell, some 800 have now been tracked to their chromosomal locations, with new genes being mapped at a rate of 200 per year.β We now know there are just 19,000 genes, though at a steady rate of 200 per year it still would have taken until 2074 to map the
- There’s little risk of overstating what a golden age of discovery in human population genetics and ancient DNA ours is. Indeed, as someone working as fast as I can here to update every worthy story of human populations and deep history as newly illuminated by genomics… I’m in far more danger of running out of lifespan than of stories of humanity rendered more fascinating by our novel insights.