News at Eleven: "We have the genes for a tail,

you know," she [Gillian Ferguson] says cheerfully, just one of the many things she learned in the past five years while writing a book of poetry about the human genome project. "For all the things I found out, it was the closeness of the connection to the rest of the natural world that really blew me away. Do you know, we share 75 per cent of the same genes as a pumpkin?"

from The Scotsman: No timorous beastie

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