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  "thread": {
    "id": 2927,
    "subject": "Weird science/BSFA",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-02-05T04:05:56+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-05T04:05:56+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-83@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Davis",
        "address": "matthew at michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-05T04:05:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Weird science/BSFA",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 02/02/2002 22:16:29 maa32 wrote:"
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Speaking of Lamarck, recent research has shown that some hormones in the\nmother's womb can affect the development of the brain in male children\nand\nincrease their homosexual proclivities - and this hormone level alters\ndepending upon how many children the mother has previously had, therefore\nher\nbehavior directly affects expression in her children within one\ngeneration -\nand it affects phenotype: the pointer finger and ring finger of children\naffected by this increased hormone level will be approximately the same\nlength, whereas those exposed to lower levels will have greater variation\nin\nfinger length.  Pretty odd, huh?"
        },
        {
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          "text": "This was mentioned on a BBC documentary on genetics a couple of weeks ago.\nWhen I mentioned this later on I had several tables of men in a gay pub all\nholding out their hands and comparing finger lengths. Judging by this rather\namateur practical test there didn't appear to be any basis to this theory at\nall. Ho-hum.\n\nAnd since no-on else has mentioned it - Wolfe's essay \"The Best Introduction\nto the Mountains\" is up for the British Science Fiction Association's\nNon-Fiction Award"
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