Knowledge of the human genome also alters our view of race, says the magazine. Two individuals may look alike and be of the same race, yet genetically they may be far more different than two individuals from ethnic groups that differ greatly from each other. Says Luigi Cavalli - Sforza of Stanford University: “The differences between people of the same races are so large that it’s ridiculous to think of races as different — or as even existing. ”
იმავე ჟურნალში ნათქვამია, რომ ადამიანის გენომის გაშიფვრის შედეგად მიღებული ცოდნა ეროვნებებზე შექმნილ წარმოდგენასაც გვიცვლის.