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事情本不应该如此。2000年春天，Francis Collins和Craig Venter在一次白宫新闻发布会上宣布：人类基因组的首次测绘排序工作已经完成。得到了比尔·克林顿总统和托尼·布莱尔首相的首肯，Collins和Venter公开宣布在分子级别进行种族划分没有意义，因为人类99.9%的DNA完全一致。全世界新闻媒体都被科学对种族主义思想的有力驳斥所深深吸引，争先恐后地报导了这一消息。
但这样的结论为时尚早。尽管99.9%的人类基因完全相似，但30亿对基因的庞大基数却为任何两个个体留出了300万的差异空间（即单核苷酸多态性，也叫SNP's）。运用无比强大的最新电脑技术，科学家们将注意力集中到剩下0.1%的基因差异之中。
为什么仅仅几天之后，科学就从否认存在人类种族差异转而采取了妥协的立场？
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