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> Instead, they assert that "genes powerfully influence the formation of all traits, from eye color to intelligence, but rarely dictate precisely what those tra
by lionhearted 17y ago
> Instead, they assert that "genes powerfully influence the formation of all traits, from eye color to intelligence, but rarely dictate precisely what those traits will be."
Man, eye color is a bad one to pick if you're making the case against genes being predictive of traits. I reckon you could get something like 60-80% of the world's eye color right based on knowing the descendency of their parents.
- tome 17y agoSurely you could get 60-80% right just by saying "brown".
- tokenadult 17y agoeye color is a bad one to pick if you're making the case against genes being predictive of traits Not so, actually. The author of the article did research before writing that rather than just misremembering something taught in school based on obsolete research. Eminent geneticist Victor McKusick developed his interest in human genetics in large part because eye colors of his immediate family members were not always as expected on the basis of naive views of the inheritance of eye color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=29 http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=29 http://www.bookrags.com/research/eye-color-gen-02/ http://www.bookrags.com/research/eye-color-gen-02/