Humans have existed for around 300,000 years. But it is only in the last 150 that we have begun to unravel the secrets hiding in our cells. In this video from BBC Ideas, Nobel prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse explores some of the breakthroughs that followed after the discovery of DNA.
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