The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.