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Genes, genomes and identity. Projections on matter.

New genetics and society - 1 Dec 2004

Hauskeller Christine

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This paper aims to show that references to genes and genomes are counterproductive in legal and political understandings of what it is to be human and a unique individual. To support this claim, I will give a brief overview of the many incompatible meanings the term 'identity' has gathered in reference to genes or genome in the contexts of biology and family ancestry, personal identity, species identity. One...

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PMID: 15828152
DOI: 10.1080/1463677042000305057

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