The woman (?) runner

As Conor Clarke says, all they have to do is look. (Actually, Irving Berlin said that, but Clarke says roughly the same thing.) But what do genetics say about equality?

But there is one general point to make about this kind of story, and I think it's an important one. If it turns out that the young woman has a muddily advantageous genetic composition, we would all consider it "unfair" to the other young women against whom she competes. After all, the outcome of a competition like running is supposed to be determined by training and grit, not the utterly arbitrarily presence of an extra gene.

And yet that intuition is impossible to extend. More...