14 Quotes by Robert Waterston

It's going to tell us important things about who we are and what we are -- medically, socially, and so forth. It's a pretty stunning achievement.

It turns out chimps have the same (genetic) sequence as that family with the speech deficit.

They have similar genes in the worm and the only reason we really know about what those genes do in people is because they've been studied in worms.

Chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. Comparing the genomes will help us address the question of the specific things that make us human.

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.