On Dec 12, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > On 12/12/05, Kenneth Gorelick <pulmon at mac.com> wrote: >> >> On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Philip Hart wrote: >> > >>> >>> Anyway, Zerika having returned from the Paths seems like sufficient >>> arising for anything more to seem de trop. And, unless she's got a >>> magically perfect genome, anything less than a flock of Phoenix >>> isn't >>> going to provide a self-sustainingly diverse genetic population. >> >> Going by analogy, perhaps Freemartins are not unknown among the >> Lyorn? >> > > I don't understand what you are trying to say here. According to > various references, freemartins occur only among bovines (and perhaps > also other ruminants), so... what *is* your point? Lyorns are bovine...perhaps Dragaerans with Lyorn genetic material are susceptible to similar reproductive events. In that case, perhaps the Jenoine imported some of the that genetic trait also into the Phoenix...making a haploid Phoenix a possibility!