Posted on 27/11/04
The genius of the genome
The Birth of the Mind:How a Tiny Number of GenesCreates the Complexitiesof Human ThoughtBy Gary MarcusBasic Books, 267 pages, $40One of the most startling discoveries of the human genome project was that the genome is much smaller than we once thought. No more than 30,000 to 40,000 genes contain the entire instructions for building the human body, including a brain that is so complex it makes computer simulations of it look like electronic toys.
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