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Pedro Silva wrote in message ...
> This is hardly a unique occurrence. Once I went on a study trip to a
> hospital/medical college, and they shown us the "genetics" gallery - boy, • it
> looked like a freak show! There was a goat with one head and two bodies
> (total of 6 legs, like a bug); plenty of one-eyed mammals... and I'll save
> you the more graphic descriptions.
> I left the place very shaken. Awkward how it is visitable by everyone
> interested, upon request - how can *anyone* have interest in such things?
IMO, having this kind of stuff available to view is a *good* thing precisely
because although things like this do occur regularly in nature, we almost
never see them and so have a view of what is "normal" (and how often "not
normal" occurs) which is not based in reality. This has real-life effects on
people who are born "not normal" by society's standards (eg intersexuals)
even though the condition in fact happens quite frequently (widely varies
for different types of intersex conditions, up to 2 in 100 live births, see
review article in the American Journal of Human Biology at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/69504033/START ).
Any discussion of this should probably go to OT-debate
Kevin
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