Oh. For. Fuck’s. Sake. I’d like to introduce LW #1 to my fraternal niece—-who combines my brother’s unmistakable nose and jawline with the first head of red hair on either side of the family in at least four generations; both he and my sister-in-law were dark brunettes in their youth. (The second was my younger sororal nephew, a technicolor blue-eyed flaming redhead born to my blonde green-eyed sister and dark-haired blue-eyed brother-in law. Two Shinies popping out of the mix within the space of nine years!)

(And then there are the quaint and curious notions people might pick up from fictional genetics. How exactly is it that Solid Snake has all dominant genes, Liquid Snake has all recessive, and yet the two manage to look identical save for hair color?)