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To: carranza2 who wrote (58223)	11/23/2009 7:33:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217786

A BP colleague had a German friend who had a brilliant son, about whom the father was boasting to my colleague. My colleague asked innocently, "Who's the father?" He said that his German friend paused for a moment, pondering the question and roared with laughter when getting the point. Perhaps they had to test your DNA twice to make sure they had got the right sample <My father's IQ is stratospheric, don't know about mine, certainly less so. Adequate, I suppose. The testers said they had to test my DNA twice because the classification is so rare. > "Dad" is often not quite as precise as the mother would lead people to believe. It's very clever how geneticists can now see an individual's ancestral migrations leading to where they are now, pinning the times down quite precisely and the various contributions to that ancestry. There must be LOTS of surprises. It's not good for the racists who think that China is made up of like-minded clones who will finally fulfill their destiny after centuries of "accident". After two or three similar 'accidents', it's more of a trend than an accident. After a few centuries, it's inaccurate to call it an "accident". Mqurice