The Uninvited

that firstly, Svensson’s eye infection at thetime of death is highly unlikely to berelated to his renal anomaly. Multiplekidneys, she writes, are by no meansunprecedented. The phenomenon isdocumented to be increasing globally,particularly in coastal regions. A recent(disputed) hypothesis points to an‘evolutionary shift’ to cope withincreased salt levels due to the Earth’saccelerated water cycle, as alreadydocumented in many animal species.However, it is noteworthy that thesubject’s two supernumerary kidneys aresignificantly smaller, and in significantlybetter condition, than the ‘parent’kidneys, which are unremarkable for amale of this age.Unless the other autopsies show similar