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Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)

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The First Survey of the Human Genome

Racist racial science would hold sway for another century after Morton. It crescendoed with the eugenics movement in the 20th century. Eugenics only got discredited after the Nazis took it to its logical genocidal conclusion. The genome project found humans have about 20,000 genes in each of our cells.

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