"And now I know you actually do have the package-pair system around here!  The pairs of packages carry duplicates of a lot of the same genetic information for constructing a person - that is, if a package is carrying some of the instructions for building, like, fingers, you've got the same information on both packages in the pair, usually.  If one of the package-pairs gets damaged, in that particular, the other element of the pair can often take over and make sure your fingers still get built.  If a brother and a sister mate, their offspring has a one-fourth probability of ending up with the same package twice, for each of the twenty-three pairs.  You are a lot more likely to end up with no information for building fingers that way.  In dath ilan, the corresponding equilibrium is that people usually aren't sexually attracted to other people they grew up with."

"Anyways, yes, you shouldn't pair off my kids with each other in the first or second generations, unless you've already developed other magic or technology for telling who got which chromosomes from me.  Still, what are they worth to the Chelish government?  Ignore the part for the moment about whether any of my kids are smarter than any other kids in this world - they may not be, for reasons I'll get into - that's a fighting-at-the-Worldwound issue anyways.  How would you go around estimating the value of intelligence variance for the heritage-optimization program?"

"And now I know you actually do have the package-pair system around here!  The pairs of packages carry duplicates of a lot of the same genetic information for constructing a person - that is, if a package is carrying some of the instructions for building, like, fingers, you've got the same information on both packages in the pair, usually.  If one of the package-pairs gets damaged, in that particular, the other element of the pair can often take over and make sure your fingers still get built.  If a brother and a sister mate, their offspring has a one-fourth probability of ending up with the same package twice, for each of the twenty-three pairs.  You are a lot more likely to end up with no information for building fingers that way.  In dath ilan, the corresponding equilibrium is that people usually aren't sexually attracted to other people they grew up with."

"Anyways, yes, you shouldn't pair off my kids with each other in the first or second generations, unless you've already developed other magic or technology for telling who got which chromosomes from me.  Still, what are they worth to the Chelish government?  Ignore the part for the moment about whether any of my kids are smarter than any other kids in this world - they may not be, for reasons I'll get into - that's a fighting-at-the-Worldwound issue anyways.  How would you go around estimating the value of intelligence variance for the heritage-optimization program?  What clever uses could you make of it?"

"And now I know you actually do have the package-pair system around here!  The pairs of packages carry duplicates of a lot of the same genetic information for constructing a person - that is, if a package is carrying some of the instructions for building, like, fingers, you've got the same information on both packages in the pair, usually.  If one of the package-pairs gets damaged, in that particular, the other element of the pair can often take over and make sure your fingers still get built.  If a brother and a sister mate, their offspring has a one-fourth probability of ending up with the same package twice, for each of the twenty-three pairs.  You are a lot more likely to end up with no information for building fingers that way.  In dath ilan, the corresponding equilibrium is that people usually aren't sexually attracted to other people they grew up with.  If people here weren't also built from package-pairs, they wouldn't get the same deleterious effects from mating with half-siblings."

"Anyways, yes, you shouldn't pair off my kids with each other in the first or second generations, unless you've already developed other magic or technology for telling who got which chromosomes from me.  Still, what are they worth to the Chelish government?  Ignore the part for the moment about whether any of my kids are smarter than any other kids in this world - they may not be, for reasons I'll get into - that's a fighting-at-the-Worldwound issue anyways.  How would you go around estimating the value of intelligence variance for the heritage-optimization program?  What clever uses could you make of it?"

"And now I know you actually do have the package-pair system around here!  The pairs of packages carry duplicates of a lot of the same genetic information for constructing a person - that is, if a package is carrying some of the instructions for building, like, fingers, you've got the same information on both packages in the pair, usually.  If one of the package-pairs gets damaged, in that particular, the other element of the pair can often take over and make sure your fingers still get built.  If a brother and a sister mate, their offspring has a one-fourth probability of ending up with the same package twice, for each of the twenty-three pairs.  You are a lot more likely to end up with no information for building fingers that way.  In dath ilan, the corresponding equilibrium is that people usually aren't sexually attracted to other people they grew up with.  If people here weren't also built from package-pairs, they wouldn't get the same deleterious effects from mating with half-siblings."

"Anyways, yes, you shouldn't pair off my kids with each other in the first or second generations, unless you've already developed other magic or technology for telling who got which chromosomes from me.  Still, what are they worth to the Chelish government?  Ignore the part for the moment about whether any of my kids are smarter than any other kids in this world - they may not be, for reasons I'll get into - that's a fighting-at-the-Worldwound issue anyways.  How would you go around estimating the value of intelligence variance for the heritage-optimization program, or the value of having different bits in the packages that are increasing and lowering intelligence?  What clever uses could you make of it?"

"And now I know you actually do have the package-pair system around here!  The pairs of packages carry duplicates of a lot of the same genetic information for constructing a person - that is, if a package is carrying some of the instructions for building, like, fingers, you've got the same information on both packages in the pair, usually.  If one of the package-pairs gets damaged, in that particular, the other element of the pair can often take over and make sure your fingers still get built.  If a brother and a sister mate, their offspring has a one-fourth probability of ending up with the same package twice, for each of the twenty-three pairs.  You are a lot more likely to end up with no information for building fingers that way.  In dath ilan, the corresponding equilibrium is that people usually aren't sexually attracted to other people they grew up with.  If people here weren't also built from package-pairs, they wouldn't get the same deleterious effects from mating with half-siblings."

"Anyways, yes, you shouldn't pair off my kids with each other in the first or second generations, unless you've already developed other magic or technology for telling who got which packages from me.  Still, what are they worth to the Chelish government?  Ignore the part for the moment about whether any of my kids are smarter than any other kids in this world - they may not be, for reasons I'll get into - that's a fighting-at-the-Worldwound issue anyways.  How would you go around estimating the value of intelligence variance for the heritage-optimization program, or the value of having different bits in the packages that are increasing and lowering intelligence?  What clever uses could you make of it?"

"And now I know you actually do have the package-pair system around here!  The pairs of packages carry duplicates of a lot of the same genetic information for constructing a person - that is, if a package is carrying some of the instructions for building, like, fingers, you've got the same information on both packages in the pair, usually.  If one of the package-pairs gets damaged, in that particular, the other element of the pair can often take over and make sure your fingers still get built.  If a brother and a sister mate, their offspring has a one-fourth probability of ending up with the same package twice, for each of the twenty-three pairs.  You are a lot more likely to end up with no information for building fingers that way.  In dath ilan, the corresponding equilibrium is that people usually aren't sexually attracted to other people they grew up with.  If people here weren't also built from package-pairs, they wouldn't get the same deleterious effects from mating with half-siblings."

"Anyways, yes, you shouldn't pair off my kids with each other in the first or second generations, unless you've already developed other magic or technology for telling who got which packages from me.  Still, what are they worth to the Chelish government?  Ignore the part for the moment about whether any of my kids are smarter than any other kids in this world - they may not be, for reasons I'll get into - that's a fighting-at-the-Worldwound issue anyways.  How would you go around estimating the value of intelligence variance for the heritage-optimization program, or the value of having different bits of heritage that are increasing and lowering intelligence?"

"And now I know you actually do have the package-pair system around here!  The pairs of packages carry duplicates of a lot of the same genetic information for constructing a person - that is, if a package is carrying some of the instructions for building, like, fingers, you've got the same information on both packages in the pair, usually.  If one of the package-pairs gets damaged, in that particular, the other element of the pair can often take over and make sure your fingers still get built.  If a brother and a sister mate, their offspring has a one-fourth probability of ending up with the same package twice, for each of the twenty-three pairs.  You are a lot more likely to end up with no information for building fingers that way.  In dath ilan, the corresponding equilibrium is that people usually aren't sexually attracted to other people they grew up with.  If people here weren't also built from package-pairs, they wouldn't get the same deleterious effects from mating with half-siblings."

"Anyways, yes, you shouldn't pair off my kids with each other in the first or second generations, unless you've already developed other magic or technology for telling who got which packages from me.  Still, what are they worth to the Chelish government?  Ignore the part for the moment about whether any of my kids are smarter than any other kids in this world - they may not be, for reasons I'll get into - that's a fighting-at-the-Worldwound issue anyways.  How would you guess the value of intelligence variance for the heritage-optimization program, or the value of having different bits of heritage that are increasing and lowering intelligence?"