
Human Genome Project: A Worthwhile Failure
November 20, 2002
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was filled with promise. Walter Gilbert claimed in 1992 that it would bring about “a change in our philosophical understanding of ourselves… one will be able to pull a CD out of one’s pocket and say, ‘Here’s a human being; it’s me!’” Why does philosopher-biologist Sahotra Sarkar consider that prospect […]