Organs can now be grown!

[GriffonSpade]

Hahaha, hey now, I'm no cheater. Besides which, I think we both lost due to the Ghostiger derailment.
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So in conclusion there are a bunch of genes floating around, some generally useful, some possibly useful, some possibly destrimental, some generally detrimental, and then you have those funny vestigial thingies, and each could flip around and become one of the others given the correct circumstances, and then what we have and do and get can affect what we become.

Survival traits:
1) surviving until you can reproduce
2) getting someone to reproduce with you
3) reproducing as much as possible
4) offspring getting survival traits too

Things like good senses are "generally useful," but can be detrimental if something exploits your sensitivity

Things like large body frames are "possibly useful" but can be detrimental if you need to move quickly or hide in a small space

Things like sickle cell anemia are "possibly detrimental" but can be useful if you should get malaria(note that this would be "generally helpful" in tribal africa)

Things like not having legs are "generally detrimental" but can be useful if you get something else to take care of you

Things like the little nubs on constricting snakes are "vestigial thingies" generally useless, but can potentially be helpful, as in tickling mates or something, but also potentially detrimental, getting stuck on something or getting ripped off

(Note that these are linked some more and some less to actual genetics!)


Yup, that means Einstein, the 7 foot tall basketball player, the hunter, the rapist, and the guy born without legs all can wind up as being the fittest! :ph34r:
(or they can wind up never getting a date, dying of a heart attack, eating some bad meat, getting shot, or being drowned at birth)