taxonomy in public media

[JOSEPH E. LAFERRIERE]

My sister (a highly intelligent but appalling uneducated woman)
has an answer to the Star Trek habit of identifying Spock and
other characters as half-human, half-alien. I pointed out to
her that, statistically speaking, the odds were not at all in
favor of aliens and humans being genetically compatible. She
smiled and replied, "But, now, we don't have any statistics
on space aliens, now do we?" I was totally lost for an answer.

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Dr. Joseph E. Laferriere, 4717 E First St., Tucson AZ 85711 USA
520-326-4868
JosephL at aztec.asu.edu