Robert Waterston Quotes

When we look at chimpanzees ... we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time. - Robert Waterston

We're really looking at an individual evolutionary event, and this is spectacular. - Robert Waterston

We're looking at evolution in action. - Robert Waterston

We have before us all the pieces of the puzzle that it takes to make a worm. Now we need to figure out how it works. - Robert Waterston

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. - Robert Waterston

Reading these two genomes side by side, it's amazing to see the evolutionary changes that are occurring. I couldn't imagine Darwin looking for stronger confirmation of his theories. - 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. - Robert Waterston

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

I couldn't imagine Darwin hoping for a stronger confirmation of his ideas than what we see when we compare the human and chimp genomes. - Robert Waterston

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