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Both populations and individuals are evolutionary targets: pharmacogenomic and cultural indicators

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‘…it is an advantage to a species to be biochemically diverse. For the biochemically diverse species will contain at least some members capable of resisting any particular pestilence.’

JBS Haldane, 1949

‘…it is an advantage to a species to be biochemically diverse. For the biochemically diverse species will contain at least some members capable of resisting any particular pestilence.’

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