<div dir="auto">I have inside information that none of that happened in Hywel's case.  He was born in Wales in 1932.  His father was a coal miner who became a milkman after an injury.  Not typical recipients of IVF.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, you biologists are a PITA.  Right, Ken.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">-----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>My memoir:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br><br>My scientific publications:<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 12:00 PM Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_458595217547915081WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Frank,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Just to be clear, if the fertilized egg from which he was spawned was from another woman, THAT woman would NOT be his biological mother? And the woman who nursed him and raised him after he was adopted at birth would not be his biological mother.  And yet the man whose sperm was used to fertilize the egg, WOULD be his biological father?  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">What IS this biology business, anyway?  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Sorry.  Just being a horse’s ass. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Nick   <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Nicholas S. Thompson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Clark University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:#0563c1">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Friam [mailto:<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Wimberly<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 02, 2019 11:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Only one of them carried him in her uterus.  <u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">F<br><br>What if his mother was an identical twin? <br><br>N<br><br>Nicholas S. Thompson<br>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<br>Clark University<br><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</a><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Friam [mailto:<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>] On Behalf Of u?l? ?<br>Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 10:38 AM<br>To: FriAM <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1<br><br>Speaking of which, have y'all seen these?:<br><br>Half Derivative of x<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAhCTDc6oA&t=633s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAhCTDc6oA&t=633s</a><br><br>Imaginary derivative of x<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMalym_n8zM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMalym_n8zM</a><br><br>The enthusiasm is infectious!<br><br>On 4/2/19 9:03 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:<br>> Why wouldn't the adjacent possible of the cigarettes being on a high shelf the state in which the cigarettes are on that shelf but 1 mm to the right.  What resolution is involved.  Almost every physical variable is analog.<br>> <br>> Aside:  Hywel once said to me that the number one doesn't exist because if you measure the platinum rod that defines the meter carefully enough it will be something like 1.0000000334... meters in terms of the definition of the meter.  Or something like that.  I asked him how many biological mothers he had.<br><br>--<br><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">☣</span> uǝlƃ<br><br>============================================================<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>archives back to 2003: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br>FRIAM-COMIC</a> <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> by Dr. Strangelove<br><br><br>============================================================<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College<br>to unsubscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>archives back to 2003: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br>FRIAM-COMIC</a> <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> by Dr. Strangelove<u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"><br>-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Frank Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz<br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br>505 670-9918<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div>============================================================<br>
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