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    It is not the case that The Human Genome Project (HGP) alone cannot identify DNA sequences that are uniquely human.

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    • 1.Identifying uniquely human DNA differences requires distinguishing those differences from all other inter-specific differences.
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    • 2.Making that distinction requires extensive intra- and inter-specific population studies.
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    • 3.Such population studies are not part of the HGP.
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    • 1.The HGP's methodology is purely structural: it sequences base pairs without reference to cross-species comparative frameworks.
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    • 2.Quine's thesis of ontological relativity entails that 'uniquely human' is a relational predicate requiring external reference schemes the HGP does not supply.
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    • 3.A sequence is only identifiable as species-unique relative to a background of known variation, which is logically external to any single-species sequencing project.
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    • 1.Kripkean essentialism about biological kinds requires that natural kind terms like 'uniquely human DNA' be grounded in causal-historical comparisons across lineages.
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    • 2.The HGP produces a reference genome for one species without the phylogenetic triangulation that causal-historical grounding of natural kinds demands.
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