Taking Exception to Human Eugenics
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Frederick P. Roth* and John Wakeley *Donnelly Centre and Departments of Molecular Genetics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada, †Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada, ‡Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada, and §Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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