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Family Trees Can Be Dicey School Projects

Jun 22, 2009

"I'm not a bad geneticist. My rather simple family kept my own genetic secret for over half a century," Paul Nurse tells the World Science Festival. The video's 10 minutes long but worth every laugh. More here:

Thanks to Daniel MacArthur for posting this.

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