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Let me call it the GI-world . Humanity is leaving an era in which the letters “G.I.” generally evoked soldiers of the United States Army and airmen of the United States Army Air Forces. We are now moving slowly but surely into a new era in which those same two letters are likely to be used to designate Genetic Inheritance : that’s to say, the part of human behavior that is derived more from Nature than from Nurture. The stuff that happened to be written already on the slate when we were born. Observers often think it would be nice to believe that our slates are blank at the moment of our birth, and that children then meet up with countless real-world experiences enabling them to extend and enrich the writing on their personal slates. This blank-slate vision might be partly valid, but researchers discovered cases of identical twins, brought up in worlds apart, who adopted highly similar behaviors, suggesting that fragments of their DNA code were apparently duplicated. Commonsense often ...

Oxford vient de publier un énorme dictionnaire de noms de famille. En ce qui concerne mon nom à moi, Skyvington , je n'ai vraiment pas de chance. Il n'y aucune présence dans le dictionnaire d'un être qui aurait porté ce nom. Tant pis. En revanche, si je me contente des trois premières lettres de mon nom, Sky , on me dit que le dictionnaire offre 8.281 individus. Si ce dictionnaire vous intéresse, vous avez probablement toujours la chance de le consulter gratuitement ICI avec le nom fanbi et le mot de passe onlineaccess .

                                            Graham Roumieu for BuzzFeed News I was pleased to hear the British geneticist Adam Rutherford saying that the conclusions of the BritainsDNA company are “ eloquent, but mostly total bollocks ”. Click here to read an amusing article in BuzzFeed by Tom Chivers that pulls no punches on this subject. It so happens that my limited use of Y-chromosomal testing carried out by a US company was highly successful in the sense that it enabled me to prove that my paternal great-grandfather William Skyvington [1868-1959] was a scoundrel, indeed a crazy nincompoop. Click here to visit a page on this so-called Courtenay Affair . I've handled the facts in detail in my book They Sought the Last of Lands , Gamone Press (Choranche), which can ...