Science is finding evidence of genetic diversity among groups of people as well as among individuals. This discovery should be embraced, not feared, say Bruce T. Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein.
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Bruce T. Lahn is in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Illinois.
- Bruce T. Lahn
Lanny Ebenstein is in the Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, California. blahn@bsd.uchicago.edu
- Lanny Ebenstein
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