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Belinda Clayton

The Human Genome Project: An increasingly elusive ‘human nature’

Current research in the biological science, particularly The Human Genome Project, has produced a proliferation of inscriptive metaphors that describes life processes in terms of signi?cation. The embrace of semiotics as an explanatory tool of genetic behavior by some traditionally deemed ‘natural’ scientists inadvertently brings attention to the historical division between the natural and social sciences alike. This paper attempts to highlight the increasingly transparent division between the oppositional concepts of nature and culture in light of a post-structuralist perspective on the human genome.

Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0037-1998
Volume: 2005, 06/2005
Pages: 249 - 258

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