The Laws of Flawful Inheritance
Genetics is always misunderstood: oversimplified by us, or unnecessarily overcomplicated by nature. Take an Indian household, for example, where a wife has just given birth and, a few minutes later, wakes up with the kid beside her, surrounded by her extended close family. The first natural thing that is done here, the customary, inevitable, instinctive act, is to conduct a thorough breakdown of the physical aspects of that minutes-old, or sometimes even days-old, child. The nose, the hair, the smile, the clasping of the hand: every single act, behaviour and trait is traced back through generations with the most unscientific precision, the kind that could embarrass the folks at genetics.com. The family lineage of that kid is drawn all the way back to ancestors the parents themselves never knew existed until then. The kid’s genetic breakdown, unfortunately, doesn’t stop there. That was just a trailer. As the kid grows older, the parents become more and more certain that their child...