What are some NOT-fun facts?
What are some NOT-fun facts?
father-daughter incest or similar
You have a unique female for every generation of your family tree, but males can show up more than once
Is there evidence for this, or is it just something inferred from what we know about gender power dynamics and the like?
As for evidence, it seems plausible, as mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosomal DNA come respectively from our mothers and fathers. And so, I could imagine an analysis of mutation drift relative to known rates of mutation could make an inference on this over generations.
The small section in the wikipedia article you link to on HIV struck me (see here).
It says that HIV increases the chances of having TEN by 1000x, reasons also unknown. I don’t know if that makes sense given the pathology of HIV/AIDS, but it struck is another example of infection by pathogens having this long tail side effects that we may not know much about or be on top of (the Multiple Sclerosis and Glandular Fever thing recently being another notable one).
Pretty soon too. I love programming simulations of chaotic systems. One thing that they all seem to have in common is that there’s a very fine line between fairly stable chaos and absolutely runaway crazy chaos. It’s something that scientists call the edge of chaos. That’s where our world and all life on it thrives. We have to be right on the knifes edge between order and disorder for complexity to emerge and stabilize.
Push the system slightly too far in one direction and things spiral out of control VERY quickly. It’s not going to slowly get worse for decades… it’s going to slowly get worse then BOOM… things will get really fucking bad really fucking fast.