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Science is finding evidence of genetic diversity among groups of people as well as among individuals. This discovery should be embraced, not feared, say Bruce T. Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein.

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  1. Bruce T. Lahn is in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Illinois.,

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  2. Lanny Ebenstein is in the Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, California. blahn@bsd.uchicago.edu,

    Lanny Ebenstein

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Have your say at http://go.nature.com/I76Rzs . See also Editorial, page 697 , and online at http://go.nature.com/VqPUE2 .

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Lahn, B., Ebenstein, L. Let's celebrate human genetic diversity. Nature 461, 726–728 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461726a

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