The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important controversial research program arising from the debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book, based on a detailed ethnographic study of two laboratories involved in the project, explores issues concerning standardization, naturalization and diversity generated in day-to-day work by scientists and technicians.
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Introduction: The Human Genome Diversity Project; 1. Technologies of populations: making differences and similarities between Turkish and Dutch males; 3. Ten chimps in a laboratory: or how a human genetic marker may become a good genetic marker for typing chimps; 4. Naturalisation of a reference sequence: Anderson or the Mitochondrial Eve of modern genetics; 5. The traffic in males and other stories on the enactment of the sexes in studies of genetic lineage; 6. Technologies of similarity and difference or how to do politics with DNA.
