Emilie,

I know we're straying off topic, but just a brief comment about your
reply.  What your neighbor may have been talking about is something
called a trisomy, a rare kind of chomosomal anomaly where there's an
extra chromosome in one of the numbered pairs.  So instead of the
normal XY in a male this individuals have an XYY.  

It is possible that such individuals have exceptional characteristics,
either for good or evil.  One could just as easily become a serial
criminal or a super bright scientist.

Victor


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia" <auntyemfaustus@h...>
wrote:
>
> Wow, Victor, I printed out your wonderful explanation below.  I
think I am beginning to grasp something.  I remember learning
something about chromosomes from school so very long ago.  Also, the
man next door talked about some monster criminals, murderers, who were
shown to be "YY".  I thought I recalled that men were "XY" and women
were "XX".  YY's would be genetic monsters, no?  They should be locked
up or killed. They are not really human if they exist.  I wonder if my
neighbor was joking.  I know that often I don't get the jokes.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA ---