Das Uberkinder

[filkertom]

(My German stinks, so that may be completely inaccurate. If so, I am a jelly donut.)

Behold the superbaby -- or at least his ankles.

Comments

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of making a Michael Jackson joke, but... nah!

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

I found a link to the whole picture:

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

"In the mother, one copy of the gene is mutated and the other is normal; the boy has two mutated copies. One almost definitely came from his father, but no information about him has been disclosed. The mutation is very rare in people."

I hate to introduce a squick factor, but by Occam's Razor, the father is very probably one of his mother's brothers, who are also said to be "very strong."

I like the Bam-Bam picture. Recall if you will that Rubble Fils was a foundling found by Barney and Betty, whom they adopted. Clearly an ancestor!

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

>the father is very probably one of his mother's brothers, who are also said >to be "very strong."

Not nessecarily. Small rural towns tend to have rather shallow gene pools. Not always so good for the people born there, but very handy for my fellow geneticists.

[braider.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realized you were a geneticist. What's you're area of expertise?

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

I work at the molecular end of the scale. Our current project has to do with regulation of sexual dimorphism in mouse liver. It may (or may not) eventually have relevance to differences between the sexes in reactions to drugs and immunology. For now, it's a pretty neat puzzle.

In more general terms, I spend my days transfering small volumes of liquid from one tube to another and electrocuting Jell-O...

[naja-pallida.livejournal.com]

Mmm, jelly donut.