RES: [UA] Today's Mythic Experience

[James McGraw]

Apparently, schools used to run "work out your blood type" biology
practicals quite regularly. This has stopped now, what with HIV etc, but
also because it would often result in people discovering that, according
to their bloodtype, their father wasn't actually their biological
father. This is apparently a lot more common than you would think
(population genetics estimates the frequency of such extra-pair
copulations as approximately 10%).

james the cat

""Clothes make the man. Naked people have
 little or no influence on society." --Mark Twain
                              

>>> WingedCoyote at aol.com 04/26/02 09:20pm >>>
I've noticed a related phenomenon, which seems unreasonable enough that
it 
could be ritualistic. For teenagers like myself, at least in my area,
it's 
next to impossible to find out your blood type. I know a bunch of
people 
who've tried to find out, especially after 9/11, and doctors simply
won't 
tell. When asked why not, they say something like "you don't need to
know."

Weird.

_______________________________________________
UA mailing list
UA at lists.uchicago.edu
http://lists.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ua