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Although scientists share many of these concerns, the concept of deciphering the human genome sends most of them into paroxysms of rapture. "It's the Holy Grail of biology," says Harvard biologist and Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert. "This information will usher in the Golden Age of molecular medicine," says Mark...
To complicate matters, between the segments of DNA that represent genes are endless stretches of code letters that seem to spell out only genetic gibberish. Geneticists once thought most of the unintelligible stuff was "junk DNA" -- useless sequences of code letters that accidentally developed during evolution and were not discarded...
Even to label genes as defective can be dangerous. In the 19th century new discoveries about heredity and evolution gave rise to the eugenics movement -- a misguided pseudo science whose followers thought that undesirable traits should be systematically purged from the human gene pool. Believers ranged from the American eugenicists...
"There is certainly an effort now on the part of the case collection to follow the opportunity [to profile women or minorities in business] whenever it is available. It's a question of development and evolution. [Case researchers] would go to a company run by a woman before one run...
Considered the most influential sociologist of the post-war era, Parsons was famous for developing the structural-functional theory, which examines the workings and evolution of stable systems and institutions.