Interesting.
Useful.
Infuriating.
Because it still did not explain the origin. If he couldn’t find it with genetics he had to use the ‘old way’. Physiology and Proteomics would be.
He had to ask Dr Seven to collect some tissue samples too. Clearly blood wasn’t enough.
He turned back toward the old book with something too close to hatred.
Selene’s blessing.
He almost laughed.
A blessing.
A pile of ceremonial garbage wrapped around hereditary biology.
There was no such thing as divine selection. There were only traits whose mechanisms had not yet been isolated. Recessive patterns. Epigenetic inheritance. Maternal imprinting. Mitochondrial interactions. Noncoding regulation. Something. Anything.
Female line.
Always female.
Never male.
Never random.
It should have been there.
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