Re: (TFT) genetics and fomorians

[Pasha and or Rick Smith <pnrsmith@istar.ca>]

Hi Cas,
	I read with interest your little essay below but I disagree
with a couple of points in it.

	The line "This also means that fomorians will always 
breed more fomorians..."  Even in the case where both parents
carry the recessive, there will be a 25% chance that the offspring
will not carry the trait at all.

	Rather than always breeding more, to giants, fomorianism
will pop up rarely.  Even if the fomorian phenotype is equally 
common with the non-fomorian gene, only one quarter of giants
would carry the gene.

	Rick 

>Dear all
>a genetic hypothesis for fomorianism would be that it was a rare recessive
>gene (i.e. the phenotype (a yukky fomorian) only manifests when there both
>genes are present. i.e. George the giant carrying Ff (i.e. one gene
>affected but normal appearance) marries Geraldine, a lovely giantess who
>unluckily also carries the gene. This means that 1 in 4 children will be a
>fomorian.
>This also means that fomorians will always breed more fomorians (each
>offspring should get a 3 in 6 chance of inheriting a parents' bonuses of
>'alertness', 'acute hearing' or 'eyes behind', say). This will make larger,
>more established communities more dangerous as 2nd & 3rd gen. fomorians wil
>ahve a higher proprtion of bonuses.
>
>Giants, not being skilled mathematically nor having access to DNA sampling,
>know vaguely about 'bad blood' in families that pops up now and again -
>which makes giant parents all the more keen to hide their deformed
>children, lest their young daughters (or sons) are deemed poor choices of
>partners.
>
>Just some genetic thoughts
>Cas
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