title: Back to basics in Berlin.
abstract: At this year's quinquennial International Congress of Genetics, human genetics provided only a fascinating minority of the content of this conference dedicated to illuminating fundamental biological systems and their evolution.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D017343:Genes, Plant; D005826:Genetics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D011995:Recombination, Genetic