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From: mvm@whuxk.UUCP (MASON)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Heredity vs. Environment
Message-ID: <38@whuxk.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-May-84 16:00:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 16:00:25 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jun-84 07:18:54 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J.
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THIS IS FROM KEN WOLMAN, BELLCORE/MORRISTOWN, AWAITING HIS OWN
LOGIN AND PASSWORD.

Here is a bit of fuel for the (probably dead?) Heredity vs. 
environment controversy:

Several years ago, a young child--in fact, a baby boy of no more
than three days--was abandoned by his parents in a national forest
in northern Arizona.  The child was found by a pack of timber
wolves, and was raised by them.  He grew up believing he was indeed
a wolf.  He ate like them, hunted like them, and performed sexual
activities "in the rearward of the fashion," as Shakespeare might
have put it.

He was found, at the age of fourteen, by some Sierra Club natural-
ists who had gone exploring (no, Ansel Adams was not there with
his trusty Hasselblad, or we might have had pictures of this
momentous discovery).  They brought the feral child back to
California, and discovered he had a natural IQ of 274.  He
learned to read within a month, and by his fifteenth birthday
had mastered the college preparatory course that admitted him
to Cal Tech.  At the age of eighteen he graduated, and won his
Ph.D. in Particle Physics by the age of 20.

The day after he received his Ph.D. he was killed chasing a car.