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Article: Amade M'Charek, The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice.(Book review)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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AMADE M'CHAREK, The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, x + 185 p.
The Human Genome Project is well known for its first complete sequencing and mapping of the biochemical basis of human heredity. Although less well publicized than the Human Genome Project, another genomic project was announced in 1991. Unsatisfied with the narrow sample of people whose genome researchers wanted to decode, some scientists, led by Allan Wilson and Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a biochemist and population geneticist, conceived a different project, called the Human Genome Diversity Project. Instead of relying on ...