On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > On 12/16/05, Michele Riccio <mr1 at rcosta.com> wrote: > > My brain is not fully engaged (office holiday party...) however, I > > seem to remember Alieria (?) telling Vald that the Jhereg began as > > castoffs from other tribes, a mishmash of genetics, but over time > > "even a mishmash becomes recognizable". This, to me, seems to > > Um. I am not a geneticist, but it seems to me that "mish-mash" is > simply the end state of unrestricted crossbreeding. Neutral drift, selection, etc. might well lead to a recognizable mishmash. There might, in other words, maybe even the right ones, a definite Jhereg haplotype. IANAG, though.