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"The Genetics Lecture" is a short story by Harry Turtledove which originally appeared in the October 2005 issue of Analog as its "Probability Zero" feature and reprinted in Atlantis and Other Places in 2010.

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rdfs:label	The Genetics Lecture
rdfs:comment	"The Genetics Lecture" is a short story by Harry Turtledove which originally appeared in the October 2005 issue of Analog as its "Probability Zero" feature and reprinted in Atlantis and Other Places in 2010.
dcterms:subject	Alternate History Pastiches Short Stories Atlantis and Other Places Short Stories First Published in Analog 2005 Works The Genetics Lecture
Collected	Atlantis and Other Places
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pub date	October 2005
First Appearance	Analog
Genre	Science Fiction Alternate History
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Author	Harry Turtledove
abstract	"The Genetics Lecture" is a short story by Harry Turtledove which originally appeared in the October 2005 issue of Analog as its "Probability Zero" feature and reprinted in Atlantis and Other Places in 2010. Set in a university genetics classroom, the story is a relatively straight discussion of genetics until Turtledove introduces specific details of the characters. In an interesting twist, one student asks his professor if it is possible that intelligent life could have evolved from something other than mollusks. The professor, whose name is revealed as Cthulhu, upbraids his student, Nyarlathotep, tapping one of his eight tentacles on the desk for emphasis. Evidently, in this alternate reality the chordates - which in our timeline include mammals as well as fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds - do not amount to much compared with the dominant mollusks. The story is brief, but Turtledove makes the most of its length. The reader is lulled into a sense of security, as the professor explains in the importance of Hox genes. Then abruptly, Turtledove pulls the rug out from under the reader by revealing that all sentient life on Earth are mollusks. To add to the fun, Turtledove pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft by naming the characters after Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep, two of Lovecraft's monstrous creations.

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