TRYING TO UNDERSTAND human genetics, it’s best to think in terms of distance, or how genetically far we are from one another. When it was proposed that we are related to chimps, the Victorians went wild, in part because they saw the distance between us and monkeys to be a lot closer than it is. A little knowledge later, and we’re all a lot more comfortable with being part of an evolving continuum, hairy as some of those stops along the road may be. So, who’s the closest of them all? Here’s a hint: She’s even closer than you think. [click to continue…]
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No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men. 
