A while back, I made a post comparing people who solicit for designer donor eggs to Nazis. As always, art and humor can never find ways to be as awful as real life. Lookie what we have here from Sunday.
Not that it is the repository of all knowledge, but I went to Wikipedia after your statement, and the editors there are pretty convinced the full extent of the genes responsible for eye color are not yet known. And no mention at all of the father's genes dominating the result. In fact the only mention of genes dominating was the reference to the recessive nature of blue eyes.
I do think arbitrary cut-offs can filter out people who should be very desirable, but it's not so much unsavory as a little foolish and fussy. One would think for a decision of this magnitude that spending some time reading through applications wouldn't be a problem. Of course maybe 5'3" is already of the short side of things (if she's 5'10") and they're already going to be confronted with the choice between the smarter 5'3" woman and the 5'9" lookalike.
I did find the duplication of education requirements rather amusing, especially since they were education requirements.
I said pretty well known. Brown is dominant, blue is recessive, hazel and other common varieties do follow family lines but are less obvious, and truly multicolored eyes only happens in cats. It's not 100% known how people who are XXY manage to survive pregnancy, but most people would say sex determination is "pretty well known".
And no mention at all of the father's genes dominating the result.
Yeah, I was gonna let that slip of yours slide, but since you insist: I didn't say that the father's genes would dominate. I said that since it's pretty obvious these people are already pretty homogenous, it isn't necessary to double up on the desired traits.
I read into that possibility with the discussion concerning a baby from a mixture of Caucasians being quite likely to be obviously not from a homogeneous couple.
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Date: 2008-09-16 06:30 pm (UTC)I do think arbitrary cut-offs can filter out people who should be very desirable, but it's not so much unsavory as a little foolish and fussy. One would think for a decision of this magnitude that spending some time reading through applications wouldn't be a problem. Of course maybe 5'3" is already of the short side of things (if she's 5'10") and they're already going to be confronted with the choice between the smarter 5'3" woman and the 5'9" lookalike.
I did find the duplication of education requirements rather amusing, especially since they were education requirements.
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Date: 2008-09-16 06:34 pm (UTC)And no mention at all of the father's genes dominating the result.
Yeah, I was gonna let that slip of yours slide, but since you insist: I didn't say that the father's genes would dominate. I said that since it's pretty obvious these people are already pretty homogenous, it isn't necessary to double up on the desired traits.
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Date: 2008-09-16 06:40 pm (UTC)