Human Student's DNA Shocks Alien Scientists-He’s One of Them | HFY | Sci-Fi Story

[@melissabolin6053]

One thing that was never mentioned that could be explored is his bloodline. The story acted as if he was unique, not someone's child or sibling. Whom did the traits come from, his mother, his father, or both. Did he have siblings? How many humans have these traits?

[@lynneclark5313]

They should have tested all his relatives also. Maybe others had a stronger/larger amount of the Khaivai DNA than he did.

[@roserea3156]

I'd be calling mom and dad.

[@Kanamesamasqueen]

So who wants to bet that the Khaivai didn't REALLY go extinct but instead a large portion of them just got trapped on Earth with no way to leave the planet while the rest off the planet died out and after the older ones died out with no way to keep passing on their knowledge due to some weird fuke (Atlantis anyone?) all humans 'forgot' we weren't native to the planet originally. So while we were 'trapped' on Earth the Earth protected us, the Khaivai, from truly dying out.

[@gkeyman565]

You would have thought the first step would be to verify that he was a single anomaly or just one of a billion.

[@bettygannon9811]

Why not test mom, dad and some unrelated humans from other parts of the globe?

[@jacquelyns9709]

Where are the Earth scientists in this story? If this school is supposed to be the best in the study of genetics, why are they treating Kevin as if he is a lone member of a species in isolation? Why is Kevin keeping his mother in the dark, and by implication, his father as well? These galactic representatives should be sending a mission to Earth to test his whole, extended family, other people in the area his family is from, and people from other areas around the Earth.

[@marjiscriven9657]

As for keeping his mother in the dark, he said he would explain it when he got home. Transmissions have a way of being intercepted and this way he keeps his family safe for a little while.

[@HobDobson]

Would it be too hard to retrieve genetic data from any of the millions of sequenced human samples? National Genographic Project, FTDNA, 23andMe, academically published archaeological sequences...