Genetics and Music

Genetics isn't calculus until you apply it to populations. If both of your parents have blue eyes then it is likely but not inevitable that you will have blue eyes. Even without any background in genetics, this much is intuitive and barely qualifies as arithmetic. However, if you look at the heritability of blue eyes over an entire population then other variables become significant and this was my ol' Dad's Great Idea. (Duck Soup: Alex Fraser)

It might not seem like such a great idea but it's really fascinating for geneticists and they quote him to this day as he was already running computer simulations of it and publishing about them in 1958. Roll in whatever time prior to 1958 that it took him how to figure out how to do it and this family has been doing hard-core computer stuff for over fifty years. Man, I sure as hell hope that does not become a tradition!

So, yeah, I'm missing him and I'm thinking, "ol' Dad, I do appreciate the mind. I'm glad I was smart enough to do some stuff that was really cool as hell to do. But the ears. I didn't need those, Dad."

He changed the world of genetics and that's not just a brag on the guy, he was really good. He did multiple world lecture tours, the whole Great Scientist bit. He was really really jammin' and my ol' mother had at least three scrapbooks full of news clippings and whatnot. It was really unbelievable as he was the closest thing to a star I've ever seen and I do mean literally that he was a celebrity.

So I made this rock band. (You can see pics of all the members of the band)

Laughs and signs off.