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a review of books by a biologist, a sociologist, a lawyer "Understanding race as a producer of health outcomes, but not a result of genetic programming, doesn't suggest that we abandon biomedical research as it relates to race, but it does suggest that looking for race-oriented genetic precursors of disease is a fruitless labor."

"Barbara Evans on legal barriers to discovery and clinical translation for genetic tests"

"In 2004, statistician Joseph Chang, computer scientist Douglas Rohde, and writer Steve Olson used a computer model of human genetics to show that anyone who was alive 2,000-3,000 years ago is either the ancestor of everyone who's now alive, or no one at all. Think about that: If a person alive in 1,000 BCE has any descendants alive today, they have all of us-even people from different continents and isolated populations. "