4 The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project was a landmark international scientific effort to map and sequence the entire human genome.
The Human Genome Project spanned nearly two decades and included researchers from many branches of science in what became the world’s most collaborative scientific effort. For the first time in human history, science possessed the tools to examine the concept of race at the genetic level. Despite the long-held belief in a biological basis for race, researchers found the opposite. The Human Genome Project revealed that there is no genetic basis for “race”. Humans are 99.9 percent identical at the DNA level, and researchers found more variation among individuals of the same race than between individuals of different races. No gene has been discovered that distinguishes one race from another, rendering attempts to attribute biology to race meaningless.[1]
There is only one race, and that is the human race.
- Duello, Theresa M., et al. "Race and genetics versus ‘ race in genetics: a systematic review of the use of African ancestry in genetic studies." Evolution, medicine, and public health 9.1 (2021): 232-245. ↵
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A landmark international scientifc effort to map and sequence the entire human genome.
