Repopulating the planet, Adam and Eve "zero", & incest.

[DougShrapnel]

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It seems like it would be best for the brothers and sisters to reproduce between themselves.

Each child's genetics is somewhat of a "random" sampling from the genetics of Adam 0 and Eve 0. Therefore there is less chance of homozygocity between the various children, in comparison to a parent and child reproduction.

If Adam 0 were to reproduce with Eve 1, then there is a guarantee that Eve 1 will have genetic traits of Adam 0, increasing the chance of recessive traits coming up and there being defects.

I think the ideal situation would be for each male child to reproduce with each one of his sister's, as many times as possible, and then remove any of the 3rd generation children from the system that show obvious abnormalities.

Then each of those children can reproduce in such a way that they do not share the same parents.

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Thankyou for your response krimson, it is a highly appreciated rare commodity indeed to see a topic on SMP that doesn't involve the closed-minded "atheist club vs theist club" neverending war, and even rarer to have it replied to. (strange these supposed "intelligent people" don't wish to discuss other topics that pertain to humanity)

Anyway enough of my grumbling, here is a picture if each group spawned 2 children - 1 boy, 1 girl.

You're intelligent so you'll see how the coding system works, my next question is now who breeds with who, and can Adam zero get involved with one of his grandchildren to 'mix up' the genes or would that be detrimental to the progress the children have made?



[/ QUOTE ]I would imagine you'd want grandpa to get involved as often as possible to maximize his genes. And grandma as well but only with grandpa. I believe I've read you would want about 300 to 500 people to get a good sample of available genes. You'd be much better off if you started with 1 dude and 2 or 3 chicks.

[sexdrugsmoney]

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I would imagine you'd want grandpa to get involved as often as possible to maximize his genes. And grandma as well but only with grandpa. I believe I've read you would want about 300 to 500 people to get a good sample of available genes. You'd be much better off if you started with 1 dude and 2 or 3 chicks.

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Thankyou Doug for your reply.

Firstly regarding 2-3 chicks, I have thought about this, preferably if one of the women was African to create the largest possible gene-divide, but that scenario is too easy IMO.

Secondly, regarding grandpa, which of his "eve" grandchildren does he breed with to provide the largest possible gene-mix up?

This is another question I originally forgot to ask but here goes:

Is there anything Adam and Eve "zero" can do to speed up evolution and "change" their genes slightly so they could breed with one of their own children?

I'm not sure if there is anything in a chemist which would cause a biological change, can anabolic steroids do it, or even corticosteroids? (though probably negative changes with overuse of both, can they change gene makeup so if Adam &amp; Eve "Zero" made their first child "normal", then both used some medicine(s) found in the chemist (or somewhere else) for a few years and then had another child, could the difference between the children's genes be due to something Adam and Eve "zero" had done either by medicine or even "nature" (say in the years between the firstborn and the secondborn a great blizzard or heatwave struck them, could their genes repsond to create a child with more melatonin or more receptive to Vitamin D because of environmental activities - or is this "timeframe" between two children too small for an evolutionary - assisted or not - change?)