Evolutionary analysis is a handmaiden to human medicine.
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We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'Eric Lander
I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease, ... What most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.
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The goal is not just butterfly collecting or mammal collecting to simply describe mammals. All of that comparative work across mammals is about informing the human genome for medicine. Until we actually understand all the working parts within our genome, we won't really be able to practice the most informed medicine.
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Evolution is a way of understanding the world that continues to hold up day after day to scientific tests.
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Of the more than 5,500 mammals living today, dogs are arguably the most remarkable. The incredible physical and behavioral diversity of dogs -- from Chihuahuas to Great Danes -- is encoded in their genomes. It can uniquely help us understand embryonic dev
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This is telling us about those changes that make us human.
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