Robert Waterston Quotes (8 Quotes)

When we look at chimpanzees ... we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

As our closest living evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. We still do not have in our hands the answer to a most fundamental question What makes us human But this genomic comparison dramatically narrows the search for the key biological differences between the species.

We're looking at evolution in action.

It's going to tell us important things about who we are and what we are -- medically, socially, and so forth. It's a pretty stunning achievement.

We have before us all the pieces of the puzzle that it takes to make a worm. Now we need to figure out how it works.

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

We're really looking at an individual evolutionary event, and this is spectacular.

Chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. Comparing the genomes will help us address the question of the specific things that make us human.