This function is to impress the
value of the whole on some of the parts, specifically the
human organisms,
in a manner relevant to the cultural, historical and psychological situation of these organic participants
in the cosmic process.
He says HGS was getting «diminishing returns» from its investment
in TIGR since Venter had steered his outfit into sequencing
organisms of little medical importance, and into
human genome sequencing, also of limited
value for a company like HGS that is interested
in genes as drug targets (not untranslated DNA that makes up most of the genome).