So, which gender is the researcher?
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well, brown is a dark shade of orange, which leans towards the red area of the color wheel more than the green area... I submit a guess of "Male, but edging towards hermaphrodite..."
though I would venture to say that how much it edges towards hermaphrodite depends on whether you are using an additive or subtractive color wheel...
given the name Michael, which I have seen applied to either gender, just makes it all that much more tricky a question...
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