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"How can a man who was never born father a son? When the ghost of his genes lives on in the DNA of his brother, genetics researchers have found. A 34-year-old U

"How can a man who was never born father a son? When the ghost of his genes lives on in the DNA of his brother, genetics researchers have found. A 34-year-old U.S. man is the first ever reported case of a paternity test fooled by a human “chimera” — someone with extra genes absorbed from a nascent twin lost in early pregnancy." Thought this was super interesting and thought I'd share!

jonah 11y ago
...and how we're unique individuals from the very very beginning. Pretty wonderful/amazing.
- reddytowns 11y ago
  We're about as unique as combination locks are unique from each other. Sure, we, mostly, each contain a unique set of chromosomes, but there are copies each of our chromosomes spread across the population of the world. So, losing one unique set, isn't a big deal at all. In any case, the next generation will again just be a random set, and your influence on that in aggregate will be most likely minuscule.
  - pbhjpbhj 11y ago
    That analogy is like "a piece of fecal matter on the bottom of your sneaker", they're both written with letters. People are not just DNA, identical twins are not even identical. We are all demonstrably unique.
    - kbutler 11y ago
      You're unique...just like everybody else.
Abraln 11y ago
The question is, could this technically be considered polygyny under certain stretched definitions?