Joel Stein

摘要

The most important battle of anyone's life is when sperm meets egg. It's Darwin at its most elemental, your genes vs. hers. One person goes on to the next round of the species, and the other goes to the grave a loser for all eternity. This is why sex is practiced in the style it often is.rnIt did not look good for me when our son Laszlo came from the womb all blond, blue-eyed and generally un-Jewy. In an earlier century, I would have had no choice but to trick my wife Cassandra into a best-of-three contest using a method that depends on my genetically inherited lack of rhythm. But with just a vial of spit each from Cassandra, myself and Laszlo, I could find out with DNA-labtested certainty which of us had influenced our child more.