I'm hosting the 16th edition of the genetics carnival Gene Genie on Sunday. If you've written something about genes or genetic diseases on your blog and would like to submit it, you can do so using this submission form.
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John Hawks has an interesting post on what it means to be human in which he argues that our "human-ness" (humanity?) is our shared evolutionary history. I like it. But Hawks also writes the following:
Targeted discovery of novel human exons by comparative genomics:
There was a time not that long ago when sequencing a single gene would be hailed as a scientific milestone.