Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
None of the birth defects caused by boozing it up whilst pregnant affect the genetics of the child. it disrupts the development, and does not generally effect the genetic make up.
in short, fetal alcohol syndrome is not a heritable trait.
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I also want to add that evolution is a species-wide phenomenon over hundreds or thousands of generations, it’s not done individually.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I guess I was understating the slowness, lol.
I do wonder if it might not actually slow down evolutionary change by removing otherwise beneficial traits?
Probably not on the scheme of things. It’s not like alcoholic mums haven’t always been around.