The Harvard geneticist and Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert (b. 1932) described the Human Genome Project as "the ultimate answer to the commandment 'know thyself'." If so, what was it about our-selves that we have learnt?
What does a sequential knowledge of base pairs say about selves?
And…
What did we expect to learn but didn’t?
What did we think we could learn but found that we couldn’t? (And maybe can’t.)
And what did we say that we would learn, knowing that we won’t, just to make sure it got funded?
