eye color is a bad one to pick if you're making the case against genes being predictive of traits
Not so, actually. The author of the article did research before writing that rather than just misremembering something taught in school based on obsolete research. Eminent geneticist Victor McKusick developed his interest in human genetics in large part because eye colors of his immediate family members were not always as expected on the basis of naive views of the inheritance of eye color.
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eye color is a bad one to pick if you're making the case against genes being predictive of traits
Not so, actually. The author of the article did research before writing that rather than just misremembering something taught in school based on obsolete research. Eminent geneticist Victor McKusick developed his interest in human genetics in large part because eye colors of his immediate family members were not always as expected on the basis of naive views of the inheritance of eye color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=29
http://www.bookrags.com/research/eye-color-gen-02/