Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.