2dimes wrote:You figure that people having sex with multiple partners causes their eventual offspring to have traits of all of them? Oh.
PLAYER57832 wrote: 2dimes wrote:Second, why does a change take so long if I can go from two cells to a fully developed mammel in around 9 months?
Again, I am not really sure what you are asking.
Uh, do you believe in baby mammels?
I'm not very smart so I don't know how it works and maybe I've just flat out been lied to but I have two children. I have read and heard theories that my single cell sperm joined with a single cell egg to make them happen.
Depends. If they are fraternal, they came from 2 seperate eggs and 2 sperm.. Women can naturally produce more than one egg at a time, though twins are much rare than single births and triplets and beyond even more rare. If they are identical, they came from a single egg and a single sperm. The fertilized egg (zygot) divides at some point and you have identical twins. If it divides again, you can have quadruplets. There is at least one such example currently living today. (a set of 4 boys)
2dimes wrote:In aproximately 9 months the babies that came tearing out of my wife's vagina had more cells. Like a really lot more!! They had things like eye balls, feet and internal organs. While I can't prove any of this to you, I have to, by a certain amount of faith, believe they went from being two cells to a fully developed mammel in around 9 months.
Yes, such is very basic biology. I learned as much when I was about 7.
2dimes wrote:Yet even though my son is on his way to darker pigment skin and tight curly hair. It will take an unknown long time and many generations before people related to me make the transition to being Maori or upper egyptian.
Your son's appearance has sbsolutely nothing to do with your location. He has a combinatin of traits from you and your wife. Now you have to understand that genotype, the genetic type and phenotype, how one appears based on those genes, differ. Basically, you gave your son a set of genes, your wife gave a set. One-half of each chromosome went to your son (in a mish-mashed way). There might have been some kind of mutation, but I doubt that. More likely your son has traits that were passed on from some distant relatives of each of your relatives. One (or both) of you carry the gene, but it is not "expressed (you don't see the result) because the trait is recessive.
My father has blue eyes. My mother brown. Brown is dominant over blue. That is, if a child gets a brown eye gene and a blue eye gene, then the child will have brown eyes (with some
very rare exceptions). So, I have blue eyes, I have a brother who has brown eyes and one who has blue eyes. This means that my mother must have one blue eyed gene and one brown eyed gene. My brother who has brown eyes has the same, a brown gene from our mother and a blue gene from our father. I, by contrast have only blue genes.
EDIT: Juan gave a much shorter answer.
2dimes wrote:So we can develop into a functioning thing during a relatively short gestation but it takes an extreamly long time to evolve noticably. Seems counter productive. We should get to work and evolve quicker.
Again, you persist in misunderstanding what evolution really does.