did Natural Sciences and I think I was the only student in that year doing both physics and physiology Oh so I've always been interested in biology uh and I hadn't been allowed to do biology at school because my father wouldn't allow it he said they would teach me genetics and genetics was nonsense huh what he really meant by that was he was convinced that all sort of macroscopic observable traits would be caused by complex interactions of many genes yes and the sort of standard theory was you know blue eyes is caused by this gene