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"Of course, whether the superhuman powers along with complete dysfunction and strange behavior of the Greek gods is a genetic result of this inbreeding is left as an exercise to the mythological geneticist."

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in April 2014 Scientific American article "The Genetic Geography of the Brain"

"A mini-kidney has been grown in an Australian laboratory from what were originally skin cells, boosting hopes for the future treatment of kidney disease. The study adds support to a science-fiction-like goal of taking skin cells from a patient, using them to grow a kidney and then implanting it into the same patient, circumventing problems with transplant rejection."

"A man who died in 315 BC in southern Africa is the closest relative yet known to humanity's common female ancestor - mitochondrial Eve"