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What Makes Us Human (Besides 'To Err')?

Apr 21, 2009

The May issue of Scientific American includes an article by Katie Pollard, who may be best known for her work elucidating HAR1 in David Haussler's lab and who is now a biostatistician at the University of California, San Francisco.

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