Don is a geneticist and cocktail maker in the three books and in the last book he gets into trouble teaching a university class a lesson in diversity when it comes to genes and race.
I laughed as he picked out a Danish woman to represent the whitest student and an African woman to represent the darkest student, and then asked the other students to try and place themselves in-between from lightest to darkest or vice-versa, with Indian and Pakistanis arguing over who was lighter skinned.
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| Some of my DNA % total |
It was funny to me, as my mother's side of the family are mainly Danish, and on my father's side of the family is some Indian genes (with me having about 1% Indian genes according to my Ancestry.com DNA results ... although now it's Nepalese, while my cousins are still Northern Indian), so I was wondering where I would place myself between the Danish woman and the African woman?
The other funny thing that happened just before I had read that section of the book was, I found a Wildlife card with an elephant on the back and wondered if it was some kind of cosmic sign to me?
Then I haven't stopped seeing elephant images and news stories since finding that card, including that elephant newspaper story about elephant genes and their sense of smell which identifies other family members.
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| Page 359 of 'The Rosie Result' |
Now I'll have to read the book that Graeme gave me for free, 'The Best of Adam Sharp' -
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