Stephen E. Jones wrote:
[This must be Celera's Craig Venter's
>worst nightmare. If he can't patent the genome, anyone who has
>the computer muscle can post it to their website and even give it
>away for free, making a profit from it by advertising, as
>Encyclopaedia Britannica is now doing. I expect Venter and others
>might try to protect their investment by legal action.]
I wonder how long before they start inserting advertising into our DNA.
>[More support for the "out of Africa"
>theory. The migration of early modern humans to the Levant near is
>perhaps concordant with the brief Biblical statement: "Now the LORD God
>had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had
>formed." (Gn 2:8)?]
But Africa is in the south. Do you mean that nothing counted until a caucasian
strain arose and colonized the eastern Mediterranean? That the earlier people
were just part of the process of formation from the dust of the ground?
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco 415-648-0208 ~ cliff@cab.com
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