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>It was pretty good for Genghis Khan's genes if a sixth of the world is related to him. Genghis Khan's genes don't care. They're genes. They just exist. > it
by scythe 15y ago
>It was pretty good for Genghis Khan's genes if a sixth of the world is related to him.
Genghis Khan's genes don't care. They're genes. They just exist.
> it makes things clearer to think of [genes] as if they did have an agenda.
Not really. The Price equation doesn't really bring agenda into the issue.
>It's [genetics] not an individual thing.
Of course not! Life is an individual thing. Where you trail off into the aether is when you say Genghis Khan benefits from something happening today. Genghis Khan cannot possibly benefit from anything happening today, because he died a long damn time ago.
- sliverstorm 15y agoYou did not read what I wrote, did you. I never once asserted that the man, Genghis Khan, benefited in any way whatsoever from having such a large progeny.