Yeah, that one is really weird!
As a biologist, my first thought would maybe be what physiological needs my child has and how it will interact with the natural environment. And what strange foods it could potentially eat.
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Anosyn@feddit.org 2 days ago
Kind of weird that nobody talked about that eugenics kinda angle from the biological POV.
What about “What biological features separate a child from an adolescent/an adult” - tough that almost falls in line with the philosopher
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 day ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s a much better inclination.
Cow Milk? Yes/No?
That’d be my first thought, in your line of thinking.
… but you can tie that back to… bloodlines, lineage, peoplegroups, haplogroups, whatever word you want to use.
Most east asians just literally do not have the genetic lineage to support regular consumption of dairy products, the way most europeans do.
Because… we (hi, I’m white) come from a long line of cow milk drinkers, east asians do not.
Its funny reading a bunch of article headlines like “why are so many east asians lactose intolerant?”
No. Fucking, no.
We’re the weird ones.
We are the ones who essentially decided to become mutants, due to our dietary choices.
What other animal regularly drinks the milk of another species of animal?
Here’s another weird one:
Redheads.
(At least broadly ‘white european’ redheads)
They … experience pain differently.
While they have an overall higher pain tolerance, they are also more sensitive to certain kinds of pain, and they need a somewhat higher dosage of something like novacaine to experience the same levels of pain reduction as a non redhead.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
Funnily enough, I just watched this very informative video on why the lactase-producing gene is actually not necessary at all for you to eat and digest dairy. If your gur biome can digest lactose, you are completely fine ;)
Also, it feels intuitive to think that there are these genetic differences between Europeans and Asians etc. But this is much more complex than you would think. Humans are much more diverse genetically, especially people from Africa. If you test whole populations of people you can maybe see some generic trends, but this does not help predict anything on an individual level. There is way too much variation possible for you to reliably predict a person’s genome. And as hinted above, the genetic variation is much higher on the African continent, where populations are genetically more similar to populations outside of Africa then to other populations in Africa. That’s why there is zero biological basis to racism btw, it is a social construct in its entirety!
Analogous to this is the difference between sexes. The variation within one sex is much higher than between sexes. And also, there is so much fuzziness in how we classify sexes with a plethora of edge cases. That’s why sexism and gender stereotypes are also just social constructs and don’t rely on biological reality.
So saying anything about the bloodline of your child really is meaningless. Unless we’re speaking of individual genetic differences passed down from your ancestors. Then you could calculate certain probabilities based on larger population data how likely it is that your child may have some genetic diseases etc. But even then you wouldn’t know if it first actually had a certain genetic mutation and secondly if this mutation will be expressed throughout your child’s life. So this is also not really predictive…
verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Yeah, I don’t think most biologists talk much about “bloodlines.”
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Geneticists do, basically.
Haplogroups.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
Yeah but they don’t call them “bloodlines” because of the ick
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
potato, potato.