On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Iván Rebollo wrote: > > #Mark A. Mandel wrote: > # > #>ISTR that somewhere we hear that lineage goes through the same-sex > #>parent: mother to daughter, father to son. > Well, as I was going to add but forgot, Aliera is obviously an > exception. > Or maybe I misremembered entirely and it ISN'T father>son and > mother>daughter. Can anyone help on that? I thought it was the genetic inheritance that was gender-based--i.e., the son has the traits of the father and the daughter those of the mother. -Dennis