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By James Shreeve. 403 pp. New York, Knopf, 2004. $26.95. ISBN 0-375-40629-8.

On Charles Darwin's birthday — February 12 — in 2001, two groups of scientists announced simultaneously that the human genome sequence had been completed. The public consortium, involving teams from six countries, published its results in Nature and made them immediately available on the Internet. Craig Venter's company, Celera Genomics, published its paper in Science.

Those announcements, although premature (only two rough drafts were available, accompanied by some preliminary analyses), marked one of the few uncontroversial moments in the quest for the human genome sequence. Almost everything else, from the ownership of the results to the molecular and statistical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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