...The early literature of eugenics is filled with speculations, and pedigrees laboriously compiled and fudged, about the gene for Wanderlust traced trhough the family lines of naval captains, or the gene for temperament that makes some of us placid and others domineering. We must not be misled by how silly such ideas seem today; they represented orthodox genetics for a brief time, and had a major social impact in America.
---The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen J. Gould (Ch. 5)
The oscillation correlating to consciousness, or to wakefulness, or whatever... far worse yet, the gene for consciousness, etc.
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