At 18:26 4/11/2003 -0400, Mark A Mandel wrote: >On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > >#On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, David Silberstein wrote: ># >#> I imagine that our resident medical/biological experts could explain >#> learnedly about the widow's peak being a recessive or dominant trait, ># >#Dominant. ># >#> and the genetic implications behind the fact that it shows up in all >#> Dragaerans except Teckla. ># >#The implication would be that no nobility ended up as Teckla, or nobles >#who join House Teckla don't have children, or that a noble's point is a >#strong selection disadvantage for Tecklas (which I can well imagine). ># >#I assume that the recessive gene was bred out of nobles long ago because >#homozygous recessives get kicked out or perhaps exposed a la Oedipus. > >That's assuming that this statement is categorically true across the >Teckla population. I don't think (whoever said it) knows that as a fact. >The n.p. could be very rare in Teckla, possibly for any of the reasons >mentioned above (and its genetics in our species don't have to have >carried over to Dragaerans, through all the J's mucking around with >their genomes). Inquiring genomes went to mind. W