The case of the illegitimate gene.

'Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of Man could invent. We could not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. Ifwe could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on; the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.' Sherlock Holmes. In: A Case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.