Blood Ties

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It was his expression, rather than the words on the page, that conveyed to her the significance of this discussion. Elizabeth Weir was a diplomat, and her strengths lay in reading people, not nucleotide sequences. She had an advantage in this case, because she knew her chief medical officer well. In nearly two years of working together in Atlantis, and the months before that in Antarctica during his attempts to operate the Ancient chair, she'd never seen Carson Beckett look so ill at ease.

Upon hearing his explanation, she understood the basis for his apprehension.

"You've just discovered this?" she asked, handing the printout back across her desk.

Carson hesitated in the middle of a nod. "Yes and no," he replied in his soft Scottish brogue. "I originally identified it during our initial efforts to isolate the ATA gene. We received a great deal of assistance from the Human Genome Project, as well as from Allan Wilson's Mitochondrial Eve research. Through their data we determined that the gene required to operate Ancient technology was first introduced into the human population approximately ten thousand years ago."

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