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> Children are still taught there are such things as dominant traits, and genes for eye colour, etc. Yet we've no idea of the full genetics of eye colour. Addi
by bpodgursky 2y ago
> Children are still taught there are such things as dominant traits, and genes for eye colour, etc. Yet we've no idea of the full genetics of eye colour.
Adding FUD doesn't help. There are perfectly knowable things to teach kids —
- Blue-eyed parents have blue-eyed kids.
- Brown eyed parents have brown-eyed kids, if they are homozygous.
- Sometimes, two brown-eyed parents have recessive alleles! But it's rare!
- A blue-eyed parent and a brown eyed parent will have ~50% blue-eyed children
You don't have to 100% characterize all hazel and green shades to capture most of the state of knowledge. These are 99.9% true. You're just trying to cast doubt on an increasingly well-understood field, akin to people trying to pick apart climate change research.