#heredity

[facts-i-just-made-up]

can you tell us about the Gregor Mendella effect?

A lot of people think he invented doms, but really he just liked peas. Some joke this means this distorted memory means that the universe has split in two.

[danskjavlarna]

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If you're tracing your genealogy, here are some design ideas for fashioning a family tree: my collection of vintage family tree imagery involving people, bones, fairies, or whatnot within branches. Not all are proper genealogical diagrams, but they'll prove inspirational.

[gregor-samsung]

Birthmarked (Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, 2018)

[inkypersons]

Art dump!

I collected a good bit since last time :,)

[augmentedpolls]

yes or no, do you have the cilantro soap gene

[lindahall]

Francis Galton – Scientist of the Day

Francis Galton, an English social scientist, was born Feb. 16, 1822, in Birmingham.

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[tenth-sentence]

We are the culmination of thousands of species of bacteria, billions of mutations, countless variations in genetic makeup, and aeons of geological time.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

[cemyafilmarsiv]

Hereditary directed by Ari Aster

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In the same way that antibiotic use in women has led to a decreased microbiome in their children over succeeding generations, so too the use of pesticides and artificial fertiliser has decreased the microbial diversity in plants.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

[countesspetofi]

Have an Autoimmune Disease? Blame the Black Death

More from The Department of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes Your Life Miserable.

If my autoimmune-disease-riddled brain understands this correctly, gene variants that were more resistant to the plague happened to also be the ones associated with making your immune system go cuckoobananapants and start attacking your body. So a lot of the people with those variants survived the pandemic and became the ancestors of us schmucks with our lupus and our Crohn’s and our rheumatoid arthritis and our what have you.

[tandemhearts]

I am the family face;

Flesh perishes, I live on,

Projecting trait and trace

Through time to times anon,

And leaping from place to place

Over oblivion.

The years-heifer feature that can

In curve and voice and eye

Despise the human span

Of furnace - that is I;

The eternal thing in man,

That heeds no call to die.

- Thomas Hardy

[nonetheless]

Linnaeus and Buffon- different frameworks, different approaches: "How do we understand life on Earth? A prize-winning biography charts the tension between two types of science 'genius'" @theconversation.com (Plus- Gregor Mendel)

Noodle on knowing: https://roughlydaily.com/2025/07/22/an-understanding-of-the-natural-world-and-whats-in-it-is-a-source-of-not-only-great-curiosity-but-great-fulfillment/

[inkypersons]

ART DUMP

Here are some full magma canvas lmao

The raph one is super old tho, and the foonj one is still in progress😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[jhsharman]

"A Little Elbow Room"

Kept an exclamation mark. Added a question mark.

[frombehindthepen]

In the Traditional Sense

In the Traditional Sense #Heritage #Ancestral #Change

Image Credit: sakura_robins “We’ve always done things this way in my family.” “We’ve never done anything like that before.” We usually hear these phrases echoed resolutely, and oftentimes the effort of making a change where needed is nonconforming. Traditions can be a wonderful gift when they serve a useful purpose. Sometimes, however, our traditions keep us stuck in a cycle of futility, doing…

[tenth-sentence]

In due course, Wells's speculation concerning criminal brightness was reinforced by a library of studies, including an American investigation of one thousand juvenile offenders, which concluded that there was no evidence for the heritability of criminality as such, and Cyril Burt's analysis of juvenile delinquents, with convincingly argued, in line with its American counterparts, that social environment had a good deal to do with delinquency.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles