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Feb 11, 2004

"The external world and consciousness are one and the same thing, in so far as both are constituted by the same primitive elements." --Erwin Schrodinger

Same Primitive Elements

Modern humans vary by only 0.2 percent of their genetic material -- and none of those variations correspond with definitions of race. In the stratified world of high school, where cliques often form along racial lines, biotechnology students recently made a startling discovery: More than half of the class at San Jose's Piedmont Hills High School, students from numerous racial and ethnic backgrounds, are linked in their DNA to the same ancestor, born more than 100,000 years ago in central China or Taiwan.