Dr. Sahotra Sarkar of the Department of Philosophy and Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin discusses what the human genome project achieved and whether it had any medical importance at all. He says that the most important outcome was biological, the G-value paradox that there is no correlation between organismic “complexity” and the number of genes. He concludes that the results of the human genome project were not those predicted. He asks why genome sequences contribute so little to functional biology and concludes that human nature has little to do with DNA sequencing alone and that which is inherited depends instead on the exposure to specific environments.