-------------------------------------------- On Fri, 7/31/15, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote: Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Friday, July 31, 2015, 6:33 PM On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:21:19AM -0700, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote: > With TL15or14 avail it seems virtually impossible to me that such > characteristics aren't corrected well before birth or even > eliminated from the gene pool altogether but I suppose it's still > possible even if just barely... There's little reason to expect that his mother had access to TL15 technology. If I recall correctly, he didn't inherit that position himself, and most people don't have TL15 medicine. Another problem is that genes for infertility are never simple dominant alleles, for the obvious reason. Those are already self removing. It would require a massive eugenics program on an interstellar scale to remove every allele that could ever give an increased risk of infertility, or combine with any others that do so together, and so on. On top of that, most of the ones that remain in the population after millions of years of evolution are those that usually give benefits that outweigh the risk. On the smaller scale, genetic modification is likely one of those things that may disqualify or disfavour a descendant from succession in the nobility. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IMO. after all the millenia & with a TL so much higher, all this has become as moot as a paleolithic man arguing that it'll be too difficult to artificially conceive at TL9. =======================================================
