emerge from this triumphant expedition . . . is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same. What that means is that modern science has confirmed . . . the most important fact of life on this Earth is our common humanity” (National Human Genome Research Institute 2013). Craig Venter, president of the private company that competed with the HGP to complete the map, stated that “the concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis” (National Human Genome Research Institute 2013). Similar statements have been made by many social scientists and geneticists (Omi 2001; Schwartz 2001; Wilson et al. 2001).
