One of the most commented upon puzzles of the postgenomic era is the paradox of race. When President Clinton held a press conference on June 26, 2000, to announce the completion of the first draft of the sequence of the human genome, the main message he and scientific leaders Francis Collins and Craig Venter chose to emphasize was that of universal human similarity: "in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same" (quoted in Bliss 2012:1). Venter, Collins, and other leading scientists strongly stated that contemporary genetics shows race not to be a scientific concept, and that "precise racial boundaries" cannot be legitimated scientifically. Yet this apparent consensus was soon broken. Geneticists 685812A SRXXX10.