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    Vilani Genetics

    Yeah, the only thing I disagreed with was the notion of being able to judge the probability of blondes emerging on evolutionary timescales with only our own particular history :) Couple of things going on here, I think, although this question is probably above my paygrade. The production of...
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    Need Interesting Ship Ideas

    This one reminds me of the scenario in that Drivethrurpg Type S book that recently came out. I liked these hooks a lot! Here's one I thought might be neat. 5. A smuggler's craft has recently been impounded by planetary security forces for smuggling highly addictive drugs on a world where they...
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    Vilani Genetics

    :shock: Are you serious? You worked on the human genome project?? I'm just a punk PhD student :D have a GPCR/signalling background, just starting work on zebrafish neural stem cell stuff at the moment. My mind is just constantly blown by molecular biology. It's like trying to reverse engineer...
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    Vilani Genetics

    If you read all of that and think I'm full of crap, or just want a practical example, a really, really good one is pseudohypoparathyroidism. It's a very, very rare condition which is caused by abnormal suppression of a particular G protein. Literally hundreds of different types of mutations and...
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    Vilani Genetics

    Hi aspqrz, I wasn't clear in my original post. Not only is a specific point mutation not required for non-black hair coulours, no specific mutation is required for any specific hair colour. There is no 1:1 correspondence between genotype and phenotype for these sorts of traits. In other words...
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    Vilani Genetics

    Hey aspqrz, thank you for the interesting thread. Not often I get to think about exogenetics!! A couple of points. First, your assumptions with regard to hair colour are somewhat flawed. A specific point mutation is not required for non-black hair colours, all you need is differences in...
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    Vilani Genetics

    I'm not sure why you would conclude that Vilani would retain ancestral alleles when the human population on earth clearly experienced enough mutation and genetic drift for alleles encoding many, many traits like blue eyes or blonde hair or freckles or what have you to become fixed. There's no...
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