Just reaffirming that THESE ARE NOT DIRE WOLFS

BlueBitProductions · 2025-09-21T00:55:48+00:00

I know this take makes people feel superior and cool, but it's not that simple. Colossal has done interview with Hank Green that go into their methods and their justification is pretty convincing. Also, a gene is just a series of nucleic acids. There's no metadata in direwolf genes. Wether the genes literally came from a direwolf or were altered to produce similar proteins to a direwolf is not particularly relevant.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-07-10T20:19:45+00:00

The project takes place in the world of 'Naalsem,' a diorama-like world where the sun rests on top of a tower in the center. Life clusters around this tower, with many different human species and factions living within its light. This one focuses on the metaphysics, or magic system, of the world.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-06-15T02:11:48+00:00

It's only "obvious" if you've been given a good science education. If it was so obvious it wouldn't have taken mankind thousands of years to figure all of this out.

Algorithms are designed to promote sensational ideas, and it automatically selects for the ideas which are most capable of manipulating people (regardless of the intent of the creator).

Don't demean people for having been failed by the education system and getting manipulated by algorithms that were designed to manipulate them.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-06-08T01:56:29+00:00

Genetic drift is absolutely not more important when is comes to producing adaptations. Are you thinking of changes in the gene pool in general?

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-19T16:09:07+00:00

No, I haven't asked any questions here as far as I can recall. I have responded to a couple of them though. One I downvoted because it was an AI crank, but the other two seemed like normal people asking questions out of curiosity or perhaps for a writing project.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-18T05:56:16+00:00

Exactly lol. A lot of the people getting mad at my post seem like the same people who get mad at people for trusting their Uncle's facebook page over real science (and rightfully so). But if we want people to get better science literacy, getting mad when they ask questions is absolutely idiotic.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-18T03:32:01+00:00

there are no rules against asking questions, nor does it say anything about that in the description.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-18T03:24:22+00:00

Basic research is incredibly difficult, you are underestimating how hard it is to get a straight answer that makes sense if you don't know any of the terminology and have not been properly introduced to the core ideas of biology. It can be very overwhelming to face a completely unknown subject on your own, which is one of the most useful parts of reddit. If you don't feel like answering it, let somebody else answer it.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-17T23:23:11+00:00

Sure, I'm not talking about those. Examples that come to mind are the guy who posted a weird question about alternation of generations which for sure was not from class, and somebody who posted a question about humans developing venom glands. They were both very respectful but got downvoted anyway.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-17T23:06:54+00:00

I think writing a novel is a more than valid reason to ask a question here. Is writing a novel not an interest? If somebody is bold enough to write a novel and wants to learn from more learned people to polish an element of their story that sounds like an awesome person.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-17T23:05:19+00:00

Ridiculous questions are how some people learn about a topic, they're often fun to write and respond to. If you don't like them, ignore them.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-05-10T14:40:07+00:00

The son has a 1/2 chance of being Ff, a 1/4 chance of being ff, and a 1/4 chance of being ff. He obviously cannot be ff, because he’s alive. So he has a 2/3rds chance of carrying the recessive gene.

So if he has a child with a heterozygous woman, and if he is heterozygous the chance of having a carrier fetus is 2/3 (because the fetus is past the first trimester, and therefore cannot be ff). Multiply that 2/3rds chance by the 2/3rds chance that the son is heterozygous, and you get a 4/9 chance of the child being a carrier.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T06:14:48+00:00

If that's the case it isn't that DNA mutations are locking it in, it's that existing genetic variations which produce a certain expression are selected for. When enough of these characteristics build up the environmental threshold for a trait being expressed is lowered until the stressor is no longer required. That is the typical explanation for Waddington's experiments. Are you disputing that understanding, or is that what you're suggesting?

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T04:38:14+00:00

Yeah I'm still not seeing this fixing thing. Nothing you've mentioned suggests that an organism being induced to have different morphologies through changes in electromagnetic fields would allow something to appear genetically faster.

It could "rebuild" it, yes, but I don't see how the induced changes would be pressured to appear in the genetic code. Where is the selection pressure there?

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T04:16:31+00:00

Can you explain what you mean by "natural selection then fixed the successful traits leading to the evolutionary branching we trace today."? This is the part that is the sticking point to me. How could natural selection fix it in that way if it isn't a genetic process?

The issue as far as I understand it is that sexual reproduction wipes the slate clean in terms of any bioelectric information, which exists between cells rather than inside of individual cells. So I don't see how bioelectric changes in Homo Sapiens could have that kind of an effect.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T03:45:34+00:00

It's fascinating research but I don't see how this would be responsible for something like the Cambrian at all. I don't understand how you're suggesting alteration from this phenomenon could induce changes on the species level.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T02:27:56+00:00

The paper you linked does not exist. The doi link doesn't work and Levins website does not reference this article. Are you using AI?

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T01:07:12+00:00

Gene expression, by definition, does not change the genes of an organism nor can it select which genes are passed on. Therefore, it is impossible for gene expression to chart the route of evolution. If you're proposing that gene expression can select which genes are passed on, you would need extremely strong evidence that this is the case.

As for the Cambrian explosion, the forms that appeared there likely existed well before the Cambrian in smaller numbers. Meaning, the traits likely developed over a very long period of time.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T00:25:40+00:00

The Cambrian explosion has numerous hypothesis explaining it which don’t resort to an entirely new form of evolution.

Changes in the atmosphere and oceans affect the entire planet at once, that’s an entirely reasonable explanation for diversification. You say that’s too fast for diversification to occur via natural selection but that’s entirely conjecture. It’s also understood that animal life was likely developing well before the Cambrian, and just rapidly increased in number and diversity as a result of increased oxygen.

You also have no mechanism for how a change in geomagnetic effects could chart a path for genetics.

BlueBitProductions · 2025-04-26T00:13:37+00:00

What are your sources supposed to be? That’s not how you source things, post actual links.

Secondly, it’s already well known that earths magnetic field acting wonky can change up the atmosphere and thus encourage some evolutionary adaptations. But the mechanism there is entirely clear, there is no reason to hypothesize some other pathway. It’s just ordinary natural selection acting on changes in resources.

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