Column: Does Duke need BAA?
(02/13/03 5:00am)
Few things in my professional life have filled me with as much fear as a recent invitation to speak at a symposium at Cold Spring Harbor Labs - the Mecca of American genetics. The occasion was a gathering of geneticists - including most of the architects of the human genome project - brought together to share research on human genetic variation and the genetic basis of human disease processes. I was one of a handful of paleoanthropologists, scientists who study the fossil record of human evolution, invited to speak.