From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   The Guardian has an interesting article today entitled "Who's the   
   daddy? Paternity mixed up in cities, study finds". I have opened the   
   paper that it links to (it's open access). I haven't read it thoroughly   
   but just skimmed through it, but I have the impression that it makes   
   the same error Bryan Sykes made in his book Adam's Curse, of assuming   
   that if a son has the same Y chomosome as his mother's husband then his   
   mother's husband is the biological father. However, that overlooks an   
   important point.   
      
   In the past, and to some degree today, it was assumed that if a   
   marriage didn't produce a child then it was entirely the woman's fault.   
   However, if a woman finds herself married to a man who is impotent or a   
   strict homosexual, how is she to keep up the appearances? Getting help   
   from the milkman is very risky, but there are at least two other men   
   with the right Y chromosome that can help, her father-in-law or a   
   brother-in-law. In either case the man would probably be anxious to   
   keep it secret to preserve the honour of the family.   
      
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   athel   
      
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