Poetic justice for Watson?
There's an interesting "P.S." to the story of James Watson's early retirement after public outcry when he told a UK newspaper that he believed people of African ancestry were less intelligent - he has 16 times more genes of African origin than the average Caucasian. The company deCODE Genetics performed the analysis using Watson's entire genome, which he linkurl:released publicly;https://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/53415/ this year. "This level is what you wou
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Alison McCook was the deputy editor at The Scientist from 2005 to 2010.
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