The Crooked Timber Of Humanity
Genetics, Bureaucracy, Elton John, Longevity, Walls, Trains, Alternatives
| Oct 20, 2018 | Subscriber's post |
Race Does Not Come Into It
Meehan Crist | LRB | 18th October 2018
The more we learn about human genetics, the more complex its workings appear. “Microbes can gain copies of genes from unrelated microbes through recently discovered and utterly unintuitive processes known as horizontal inheritance. Some microbes will scoop up loose DNA and incorporate it in…