Alexander J Luthor
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Alexander J Luthor
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Alexander J Luthor
You were kidding when you said you didn't know who they were... right?
No, and I didn't feel interested enough to look them up.
Don't do it. Don't burn those braincells, use them on something productive.
OK, thanks for warning me, I won't look them up. Not sure if what I'm doing is productive, reading specifics on medical conditions that disqualify one from military service. Never heard of cervical (neck) ribs before, but learning about them led to an interesting article suggesting that the extinction of mammoths may have been hastened by inbreeding.
https://peerj.com/articles/318/
Inbreeding allows a greater chance for recessive genes to pop up. Some, like blue eyes, freckles, and a less hairy disposition aren't that bad. But the others... Progeria, harlequin ichthyosis, cystic fibrosis... those can be terrible.
Recessives are pretty interesting actually. Check out how they spread in a familial chart:
Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome is actually caused by a new mutation so it is not likely to be inherited as most people with the disease do not live long enough to breed.
It might be nice if that dispersal were so regular, but those are just the odds. A couple could carry harmful recessives and have all their children be normal/carriers, or they could have their whole brood turn out messed up. I think the latter might have happened to a family on my old street, every single one of their kids was defective but they kept making more, finally got one whose only problem was severe ADHD. Previously they had one born profoundly deaf, one blind and paralyzed, and one severely mentally retarded with a large, deformed head, I think there was a fifth but not sure - I avoided them.
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