Since Enterprise has had the “Space Seed” and “Wrath of Kahn” prequels last week, this and next week, I was doing some thinking about eugenics. Not the labortory style, but the age old personal traditional ones.
If you had to chose a gene for your offspring to get, what would it be? I’m presuming you find a mate that carries that gene, and convince them to mate with you.
Me? I think I would go for the tetrachromatic female. One who sees in 4 colors, instead of the 3 that men and over 50% of women are condemend to. Probably explains why women spend more time going over colors and such, and men will live with the “mixed matched tie” and “odd socks”. That or laziness. But I can think of real survival and evolutionary advantages for having it.
What would you pick?
Just so long as it’s not from one MTV show:
“You two would have great looking kids”
“Why, because Stephen’s so tan?”
People who think like that, probably shouldn’t breed. No matter how good looking they are.
Now I’m dying to know if I’m tetrachromatic or not. They mention the rainbow in the article, so is that the definitive test?
Well, we pull out your eyeball, disect it and let you know…. Not the greatest of tests, it’s true.
Ask a biologist, I’m sure they have a less painful way for you to find out.