Pugs and Persian cats share more than cuteness; they've evolved similar faces due to human-driven breeding. Discover the science behind this convergence. #Evolution #SelectiveBreeding #PetHealth

https://geekoo.news/evolutionary-convergence-pugs-and-persians-share-more-than-cuteness/

Sickly Cats 2025: Here are 7 cats that suffer health issues due to selective breeding - including the Scottish Fold
scotsman.com/lifestyle/family/…

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Sickly Cats 2025: Here are 7 cats that suffer health issues due to selective breeding - including the Scottish Fold
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family/sickly-cats-2025-here-are-7-cats-that-suffer-health-issues-due-to-selective-breeding-including-the-scottish-fold-5026206

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Best Posts of 2024

It is boxing week, again, where I try to highlight some of my best posts of the last year.

At the start of this year I trot out one of my pet peeves. In Summiting Everest, you can easily tell that these people, who were once heroes in my mind, now occupy a much lower spot in my current estimation.

In Manufactured Battle of the Bands, I suggest that Dire Straits and the Who seem poles apart in certain regards.

In Simple Rock vs. Prog Rock, I refute one of Gene Simmons asinine suggestions. He suggested that it’s harder to come up with his simple songs than the more complex prog rock.

Selective Breeding gives step by step instructions that could lead to a superhuman,

Guitar Slinging looks at how rock artists sling their guitars and basses. So which style are you? Slung low or slung high?

Then finally in November 2024 Grab Bag o’ Humour, we look at geographical swearing, a newish name for the Donald, and the largest democracy.

Wishing you and yours best wishes for the coming year.

#andTheLargestDemocracy #bestPostsOfTheYear #BoxingWeek #Dawn #DireStraits #Everest #GeneSimmons #geographicalSwearing #guitarSlinging #progRock #selectiveBreeding #simpleRock #theWho

When it’s not being used to make the snouts of collies even more anteater like, selective breeding can be a powerful thing.

Unconsciously we can see it being done when actors marry actors, sports heroes marry sports heroes, musicians marry musicians, etc. Of course we will have to live lifetimes to see how it affects these areas of human achievement. As well, we will have to correct for the nepo baby effect. In other words, the influence of their parents in being hired initially, or more easily.

I’d like to start a selective breeding program, myself, in an effort to improve the human race in a way that I find to be advantageous.

I believe we should breed for transparent eyelids. It is possible to see through my eyelids if it is bright or dark where I am. I can see a little light when I am in the sun, through my eyelids. Even bright indoor lights are detectable through my eyelids.

Other people may have the ability to know what direction the light is in that they are detecting through their eyelids.

I say we take the best of these people at seeing light with their eyes closed and knowing where the light is coming from and breed them. It might take many generations but at minimum we will have bred for a thinner eyelid from these people. At best their eyelids may be transparent.

If their eyelids get transparent, think of the benefits. They could look during a sandstorm/ snowstorm. They could keep their eyelids shut tight to avoid illness being circulated through their eyes ( they wouldn’t need the covid screen then). They’d be harder to kill in their sleep because they could still see a would be assassin while snoring away. They could swim in chlorinated water with their eyes not being bothered.

A potential drawback is that to sleep they might need an eye mask. But eye masks are cheap and easy to rig up if none are available.

I think it would be worth it to selective breed for this type of human. But if we did, would the results be called evolution? How about mevolution​ Or ievolution? I prefer this last one because it is all about the i’s, but Apple might try to sue.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2024/08/17/selective-breeding/

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Understanding Mendel’s Law of Dominance in Genetics

#DominantTraits, #EvolutionaryStudies, #FirstLawOfMendel, #LawOfDominancy, #LawOfIndependentAssortment, #LawOfSegregation, #MedicalGenetics, #Mendel, #PeaPlant, #PisumSativum, #RecessiveTraits, #SelectiveBreeding #Genetics Genetics, the study of heredity and variation in living organisms, has fascinated scientists for centuries. Among the foundational principles that paved the way for modern genetic understanding is…

https://micrordt.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/understanding-mendels-law-of-dominance-in-genetics/

#Arizona #religious #hatemonger #CharlieKirk hosts #SteveSailer, to attack #PeopleofColor and #trans individuals

Sailer admins a “#neoeugenics” forum that promotes “#selectivebreeding of #humans.” Additionally, he writes for an #AntiImmigrant and #whitenationalist site

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-hosts-white-nationalist-writer-steve-sailer-attack-minorities