On the other hand, it seems necessary to say something about the apparent extremity of traits like "which language you speak" and "what color your eyes are". While it's possible in principle that you could genetically engineer a person to speak 15th century French, or modify someone's eye color after birth, the range of variation we expect in genes or post-birth environment amounts to a negligible effect on language or eye color in practice.
On the other hand, it seems necessary to say something about the apparent extremity of traits like "which language you speak" and "what color your eyes are". While it's possible in principle that you could genetically engineer a person to speak 15th century French, or modify someone's eye color after birth, the range of variation we expect in genes or post-birth environment amounts to a negligible effect on language or eye color in practice.
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Some further progress cleaning up the https://xkcd.com/1360/ -esque augean stables that is my hard drive. Tomato chicken I made a couple days ago…
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Did some personal archaeology. Helped a little with laundry. Threw some chicken, onions, tomato, stock, peppers in the slow cooker and hopefully…
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Dinner with akiva and dannel at nuevo portal in carroll gardens. Ate a pile of chicken stew and rice and beans and maduros, good times. I do miss…
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Some further progress cleaning up the https://xkcd.com/1360/ -esque augean stables that is my hard drive. Tomato chicken I made a couple days ago…
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Did some personal archaeology. Helped a little with laundry. Threw some chicken, onions, tomato, stock, peppers in the slow cooker and hopefully…
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Dinner with akiva and dannel at nuevo portal in carroll gardens. Ate a pile of chicken stew and rice and beans and maduros, good times. I do miss…
