ABSTRACT

Although there are moments within the ebb and flow of talk about the human genome that focus on the amount of genetic material we share in common with all living things, especially among those defined as human (Tishkoff and Kidd 2004), the real interest and attention these days is focused on those fractions of genetic material that set us apart, that distinguish between us, and when we get right down to it, that allow us to discriminate between those who have the ‘right stuff’, and those who do not (Jones and Smith 2005).