Re: Scientists Complete Map of Second Human Chromosome, etc.

From: Cliff Lundberg (cliff@cab.com)
Date: Sun May 14 2000 - 19:55:12 EDT

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    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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