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  • cholesterol@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzGenetics
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    2 months ago

    I am personally okay with that, as this is intended to be a simplification. A simplification by definition can’t include all information. But there’s a difference between omitting information and including misleading information. My problem’s with the latter in this case.


  • cholesterol@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzGenetics
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    2 months ago

    This looks misleading to me, because it indicates that grandchildren and their descendants can have very disproportionate amounts of genes from either grandparent.

    The genes inherited from a parent do not sit in one continuous chunk, as indicated here.

    Instead they are pulled randomly from all over the parent’s genome, and so they end up taking up places all over the offspring’s genome as well.

    This has the effect that relatedness is consistently halved through the generations. (Though minor variations occur in the short term)















  • cholesterol@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlTrue next-gen graphics
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    9 months ago

    If this follows the cycle of No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk, it’s a matter of time before we see the first YouTube videos titled ‘Starfield is good now??’

    It almost seems like releasing unfinished games is the way AAA developers crowdfund. Sure, the people who preorder get burned, but then there’s a second wave of sales waiting when the game ‘gets good’.

    Drop the price of the original, but let it coincide with the release of an ‘expansion’ to offset the difference and you can sell the game again to the people who held out.

    Meanwhile YouTubers rake in views, first on the wave of rage and later on that redemption arc, because people do want games to be good after all.