Dawkins The Age Of The Genome
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Includes all four episodes, with the final episode transmitted just last night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ssmcp
In a new four part series, evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins decodes the discoveries and mysteries surrounding the genome.
Ten years ago this June, an international army of scientists announced that they had succeeded in completing their first draft of the genetic book of human life.
They had read most of the three billion genetic letters of the DNA instruction manual which resides in our chromosomes. It was an achievement worthy of an international press conference with President Bill Clinton in the White House.
The Human Genome Project involved thousands of scientists in many different countries, cost hundreds of millions of pounds and took more than ten years. It was the first big science project for biology.
But what have been the benefits and advances a decade on?
