For SF Writers: Skinning a Cat

I found this article over at Gene Expression.

The most interesting thing about it is something that SF writers ought to take note of:

By the way, as personal stories like this become more common hopefully we'll stop hearing about how everyone in the future will be brown because of admixture. More values at each variable will result in an increase in variance for the distribution, not a decrease.

Put that in your notes for stories, folks.