关键词为 “基因” 的文章
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魔法师基因
by sinophysiker on 9月 26, 2006
当然这个属于旧闻了，不过我是刚看到。很有意思所以拿来说一下。以下斜体部分转自我学设计的朋友laladoll的msn space。
This summer, the journal Nature published “Harry Potter and the Recessive Allele,” a letter that argued that J. K. Rowling’s tales of the young wizard Harry Potter offer an opportunity to educate children in modern theories of heredity.
As almost everyone above the age of 3 knows, the Harry Potter novels depict a world divided into people who possess magical powers (wizards and witches) and those who do not (Muggles). Not everyone can be a wizard; indeed, after careful review of the evidence, the authors of the Nature letter concluded that wizards evidently inherit their gifts from their parents as predicted by the theories of the 19th-century geneticist Gregor Mendel.